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Ξέρξου δὲ γράψαντος αὐτῷ, ‘ἔξεστί σοι μὴ θεομαχοῦντι, μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ δὲ ταττομένῳ, τῆς Ἑλλάδος μοναρχεῖν,’ ἀντέγραψεν, ‘εἰ τὰ καλὰ τοῦ βίου ἐγίγωσκες,1 ἀπέστης ἂν τῆς τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμίας ἐμοὶ δὲ κρείττων ὁ ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἑλλάδος θάνατος τοῦ μοναρχεῖν τῶν ὁμοφύλων.’
1 ἐγίγνωσκες F.C.B.: ἐγίνωσκες Bernardakis: γιγώσκεις or γινώσκοις.
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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