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συνεβούλευε δὲ τῶν ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι δυνατῶν καὶ τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς φίλους κτᾶσθαι καὶ τοὺς πονηρούς, εἶτα οἷς μὲν χρῆσθαι οἷς δ᾽ ἀποχρῆσθαι.
πρὸς δὲ Φίλωνα τὸν Θηβαῖον εὐεργέτην αὐτοῦ γενόμενον καὶ ξένον, ὁπηνίκα διῆγεν ἐν Θήβαις ὁμηρεύων, ὕστερον δὲ μηδεμίαν παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ δωρεὰν προσδεχόμενον, ‘μή με,’ εἶπεν, ‘ἀφαιροῦ τὸ ἀνίκητον, εὐεργεσίας καὶ χάριτος ἡττώμενον.’
ληφθέντων δὲ πολλῶν αἰχμαλώτων, ἐπίπρασκεν αὐτοὺς ἀνεσταλμένῳ τῷ χιτῶνι καθήμενος οὐκ εὐπρεπῶς: εἷς οὖν τῶν πωλουμένων ἀνεβόησε, ‘φεῖσαί μου, Φίλιππε, πατρικὸς γάρ εἰμί σου φίλος’ ἐρωτήσαντος δὲ τοῦ Φιλίππου, ‘πόθεν, ’
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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