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ἀκούσας δὲ ὅτι νεανίσκοι πολλὰ βλάσφημα περὶ αὐτοῦ πίνοντες εἰρήκασιν, ἐκέλευσεν ἀχθῆναι μεθ᾽ ἡμέραν πρὸς αὐτὸν ἅπαντας: ἀχθέντων δέ, τὸν πρῶτον ἠρώτησεν εἰ ταῦτα εἰρήκασι περὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ νεανίσκος, ‘ταῦτα,’ εἶπεν, ‘ὦ βασιλεῦ: πλείονα δ᾽ ἂν τούτων εἰρήκειμεν, εἰ πλείονα οἶνον εἴχομεν.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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