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‘διὰ τί τῶν λεγομένων Φιτιαλέων,
Ἑλληνιστὶ δ᾽
οἷον εἰρηνοποιῶν καὶ σπονδοφόρων, ὁ καλούμενος ' πάτερ πατρᾶτος ' ἐνομίζετο μέγιστος; ἔστι δ᾽
οὗτος, ᾧ πατὴρ ζῇ καὶ παῖδες εἰσὶν ἔχει
δὲ καὶ νῦν προνομίαν τινὰ καὶ πίστιν οἱ γάρ
στρατηγοὶ τὰ δι᾽ εὐμορφίαν καὶ ὥραν ἐπιμελοῦς
δεόμενα καὶ σώφρονος φυλακῆς σώματα τούτοις παρακατατίθενται.’
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πότερον ὅτι τὸ αἰδεῖσθαι τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῖς καὶ
τὸ φοβεῖσθαι τοὺς πατέρας πρόσεστιν: ἢ τοὔνομα τὴν αἰτίαν ὑπαγορεύει; βούλεται γὰρ εἶναι τὸ
‘πατρᾶτον οἱονεὶ’ συμπεπερασμένον καὶ πεπερατωμένον, ὡς τελειοτέρου τῶν ἄλλων ὄντος
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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