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μέλλων δὲ ἀποθνήσκειν αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐμακάριζεν ὅτι μηδεὶς Ἀθηναίων μέλαν ἱμάτιον δι᾽ αὐτὸν ἐνεδύσατο.

Ἀλκιβιάδου

Ἀλκιβιάδης ἔτι παῖς ὢν ἐλήφθη λαβὴν ἐν παλαίστρᾳ: καὶ μὴ δυνάμενος διαφυγεῖν ἔδακε τὴν χεῖρα τοῦ καταπαλαίοντος: εἰπόντος δὲ ἐκείνου, ‘δάκνεις ὡς αἱ γυναῖκες,’ ‘οὐ μὲν οὖν,’ εἶπεν, ‘ἀλλ᾽ ὡς οἱ λέοντες.’

ἔχων δὲ κύνα πάγκαλον ἐωνημένον1 ἑπτακισχιλίων δραχμῶν, ἀπέκοψεν αὐτοῦ τὴν οὐράν ‘ὅπως,’ ἔφη, ‘τοῦτο λέγωσιν Ἀθηναῖοι περὶ ἐμοῦ, καὶ μηδὲν ἄλλο πολυπραγμονῶσι.’

1 ἐωνημένον] ἐωνημένος Hartman, possible but not imperative.

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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