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ἐδεήθη τις αὐτοῦ γράψαι πρὸς τοὺς ἐπ᾽ Ἀσίας ξένους, ὅπως τύχῃ τοῦ δικαίου: ‘ἀλλ᾽ οἱ ἐμοὶ ξένοι,’ εἶπε, ‘τὰ δίκαια δι᾽ ἑαυτῶν, κἂν ἐγὼ μὴ γράψω, ποιοῦσιν.’
ἐπεδείκνυέ τις αὐτῷ τῆς πόλεως τὸ τεῖχος ὀχυρὸν καὶ καρτερῶς ἄγαν ἐξῳκοδομημένον, καὶ [p. 270] ἠρώτα εἰ καλὸν αὐτῷ φαίνεται: ‘νὴ Δία,’ ἔφη. ‘καλὸν οὐχ ὡς ἀνδράσι δὲ ἀλλ᾽ ὡς γυναιξὶν ἐνοικεῖν.’
Μεγαρέως δέ τινος περὶ τῆς πόλεως πρὸς αὐτὸν μεγαλαυχουμένου, ‘μειράκιον,’ ἔφη, ‘οἱ λόγοι σου πολλῆς δυνάμεως δέονται.’
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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