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Ταίναρον ἀπεσταλμένος ἔκ τινων χρησμῶν, τῷ Ποσειδῶνι θυσίαν καὶ θεωρίαν ἀπάγων. 1 ἀσπασαμένων δ᾽ αὐτὸν ἡμῶν καὶ τοῦ Περιάνδρου προσαγαγομένου καὶ φιλήσαντος καθίσας παρ᾽ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης ἀπήγγειλεν ἅττα δὴ πρὸς μόνον ἐκεῖνον, ὁ δ᾽ ἠκροᾶτο, πολλὰ πάσχοντι πρὸς τὸν λόγον ὅμοιος [p. 393] ὤν. τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἀχθόμενος τὰ δ᾽ ἀγανακτῶν ἐφαίνετο, πολλάκις δ᾽ ἀπιστῶν, εἶτα θαυμάζων τέλος δὲ γελάσας πρὸς ἡμᾶς ‘ βούλομαι μέν’ ἔφη ‘ πρὸς τὸ παρὸν φράσαι τὸ προσηγγελμένον: ὀκνῶ δ᾽ ἀκούσας ’
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1888. 1.
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