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βουλόμενος δὲ τὸν πρὸς τὸν Πέρσην συστήσασθαι πόλεμον ἕνεκα τοῦ ἐλευθερῶσαι τοὺς ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ κατοικοῦντας Ἕλληνας, τῷ κατὰ Δωδώνην Διὸς ἐχρήσατο μαντείῳ: κελεύσαντος δέ, 1 τὸ χρησθὲν ἀνήγγειλε τοῖς ἐφόροις: οἱ δὲ ἐκέλευσαν αὐτὸν καὶ εἰς Δελφοὺς ἀφικόμενον περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν πυνθάνεσθαι. πορευθεὶς οὖν εἰς τὸ μαντεῖον ἐπηρώτησεν οὕτως ‘Ἄπολλον, ἦ δοκεῖ σοι ὃ καὶ τῷ πατρί;᾽’ συναινέσαντος δ᾽ αἱρεθεὶς οὕτως ἐστρατεύσατο.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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