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Γαΐῳ δὲ Λαιλίῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ τῶν ἑταίρων ὑπατείαν μετιόντι συμπράττων ἐπηρώτησε Πομπήιον εἰ καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπατείαν μέτεισιν: ἐδόκει δὲ ὁ Πομπήιος υἱὸς αὐλητοῦ γεγονέναι: τοῦ δὲ φήσαντος μὴ μετιέναι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν Λαίλιον ἐπαγγελλόμενος συμπεριάξειν καὶ συναρχαιρεσιάσειν, πιστεύσαντες καὶ περιμένοντες ἐκείνῳ 1 ἐξηπατήθησαν: ἀπηγγέλλετο 2 γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐν ἀγορᾷ περιιὼν καὶ δεξιούμενος τοὺς πολίτας. ἀγανακτούντων δὲ τῶν ἄλλων , ὁ Σκιπίων γελάσας ‘ἀβελτερίᾳ 3 γε’ εἶπεν ‘ἡμῶν, καθάπερ οὐκ ἀνθρώπους μέλλοντες ἀλλὰ θεοὺς παρακαλεῖν, πάλαι διατρίβομεν αὐλητὴν ἀναμένοντες.’
Ἀππίου δὲ Κλαυδίου περὶ τῆς τιμητικῆς ἀρχῆς
1 ἐκείνῳ] ἐκεῖνον an transponendum post πιστεύσαντες?
2 ἀπηγγέλλετο] παρήγγελλε Cobetus
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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