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ἐπεὶ δὲ Πομπηίου φεύγοντος ἐπὶ θάλατταν ἐκ1 τῆς Ῥώμης, καὶ Μέτελλος ἔπαρχος ὢν τοῦ ταμιείου2 βουλόμενον αὐτὸν χρήματα λαβεῖν ἐκώλυε καὶ τὸ ταμιεῖον ἀπέκλεισεν, ἠπείλησεν [p. 226] ἀποκτενεῖν αὐτὸν καταπλαγέντος δὲ τοῦ Μετέλλου, ‘τοῦτο,’ εἶπεν, ‘ὦ νεανίσκε, φῆσαί μοι χαλεπώτερον ἦν ἢ ποιῆσαι.’
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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