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καὶ διέβη τὸν Ῥουβίκωνα ποταμὸν ἐκ τῆς Γαλατικῆς ἐπαρχίας ἐπὶ Πομπήιον, εἰπὼν ‘πᾶσι,1 ἀνερρίφθω κύβος.’
1 πᾶσι F.C.B. (=πρὸς τοὺς παρόντας in the Life of Pompey, chap. lx.): πᾶς of the mss. could be kept and explained, but it is not found elsewhere in Plutarch with this expression, and Cobet would omit it here also; but it may have been substituted for πᾶσι under the influence of πᾶς ἀνέρριμαι κύβος, Aristoph. Frag. 673 Kock: E. Capps suggests πάξ.
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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