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τινες ἔλεγον ὅτι1 ὑπὲρ τοῦ λανθάνειν τοῦτο πεποιήκει, ‘ἵνα μὲν οὖν,’ εἶπε, ‘φανερὸς ὦ: οὕτω γὰρ τοῖς πολεμίοις πλησίον προσέρχομαι, ὥστε τὸ ἐπίσημον ἡλίκον ἐστὶν ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν ὁρᾶσθαι.’
ἕτερος, ἐν συμποσίῳ προσενεχθείσης λύρας, ‘οὐ Λακωνικόν,’ εἶπε, ‘τὸ φλυαρεῖν.’
Σπαρτιάτης ἐρωτηθεὶς εἰ ἀσφαλὴς ἡ εἰς Σπάρτην ὁδὸς εἶπεν, ‘ὁποῖος κά τις ᾖς2: οἱ μὲν γὰρ λέοντες βαδίζοντι ὅπα κα λέωντι,3 τὼς δὲ λαγὼς ἐπὶ τᾶς γᾶς κήνας4 θηρεύομες.’
ἐν χειραψίᾳ περικρούοντος τοῦ προστραχηλίζοντος
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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