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ἐνιαυτὸν ὅλον, εἰπὼν ὅτι ‘ἔστι 1 καὶ σιγῆς ἀκίνδυνον γέρας.’
ἀκούσας δέ, ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρος δύο καὶ τριάκοντα γεγονὼς ἔτη κατεστραμμένος τὰ πλεῖστα διηπόρει τί ποιήσει τὸν λοιπὸν χρόνον , ἐθαύμαζεν, εἰ μὴ μεῖζον Ἀλέξανδρος ἔργον ἡγεῖτο τοῦ [p. 98] κτήσασθαι τὴν ἡγεμονίαν τὸ διατάξαι τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν.
γράψας; δὲ τὸν περὶ τῶν μοιχῶν νόμον, ἐν ᾧ διώρισται πῶς δεῖ κρίνεσθαι τοὺς ἐν αἰτίαις 2 γενομένους καὶ πῶς δεῖ κολάζεσθαι τοὺς ἁλόντας, εἶτα προσπεσὼν ὑπ᾽ ὀργῆς τὸν ἐπὶ Ἰουλίᾳ τῇ θυγατρὶ διαβεβλημένον νεανίσκον ἔτυπτε ταῖς χερσίν: ἐκείνου δὲ ἀναβοῶντος ‘νόμον ἔθηκας, ὦ Καῖσαρ ,'’ οὕτω
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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