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πρὸς Ἀργείους δὲ περὶ γῆς ὅρων ἀμφισβητοῦντας πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους καὶ δικαιότερα λέγειν αὐτῶν φάσκοντας, σπασάμενος τὴν μάχαιραν, ‘ὁ [p. 374] ταύτης,1’ ἔφη, ‘κρατῶν βέλτιστα περὶ γῆς ὅρων διαλέγεται.’
τοὺς δὲ Βοιωτοὺς ἐπαμφοτερίζοντας, ὅτε διῄει τὴν χώραν, ὁρῶν, προσέπεμψε πυνθανόμενος πότερον ὀρθοῖς τοῖς δόρασιν ἢ κεκλιμένοις διαπορεύηται τὴν χώραν αὐτῶν.
Μεγαρέως δὲ ἀνδρὸς ἐν τῷ κοινῷ συλλόγῳ παρρησίᾳ χρησαμένου πρὸς αὐτόν, ‘οἱ λόγοι σου,’ εἶπεν, ‘ὦ ξένε, πόλεως 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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