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διετέλει δὲ λέγων τὸν ἄρχοντα προσήκειν οὐ μαλακίᾳ καρτερίᾳ δὲ καὶ ἀνδρείᾳ δὴ1 τῶν ἰδιωτῶν περιεῖναι.

1 δὴ F.C.B. (probably corrupted to δεῖ and then into the infinitive): δεῖν. προσήκειν in the line above should be kept, as it stands in Xenophon, Agesilaus, 5. 2, the source of the quotation.

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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