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Προφερομένου1 δέ τινος περὶ τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐλευθερίας οὐκ ἀγεννῆ μέν, δυσχερῆ δ᾽ ἐπιτελεσθῆναι, ‘προσδέονταί σου, ὦ ξένε,’ ἔφη, ‘οἱ λόγοι δυνάμεως καὶ χρημάτων.’
λέγοντος δέ τινος ὅτι Φίλιππος αὐτοῖς ἀνεπίβατον τὴν Ἑλλάδα ποιήσει, ‘ἱκανὴ ἡμῖν,’ ἔφη, ‘ὦ ξένε, ἡ ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἀναστροφή.’
πρεσβευτὴς ἐκ Περίνθου παραγενόμενος εἰς Λακεδαίμονα ἐμακρηγόρει: ὡς δὲ ἐπαύσατο λέγων καὶ ἠρώτα τὸν Ἆγιν τί δεῖ τοῖς Περινθίοις ἀπαγγεῖλαι, ‘τί δ᾽ ἄλλο,’ ἔφη, ‘ἢ ὅτι σὺ μὲν μόλις ἐπαύσω λέγων, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐσιώπων2; ’
1 προφερομένου Wyttenbach: προσφερομένου.
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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