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ἀποκαλύπτονται τοῖς:
δυνατωτέροις, οὐ τιμὴν αὐτοῖς προστιθέντες ἀλλὰ τὸν φθόνον αὐτῶν μᾶλλον
ἀφαιροῦντες, ἵνα μὴ δόξωσι τὰς αὐτὰς τοῖς θεοῖς τιμὰς ἀπαιτεῖν μηδ᾽ ὑπομένειν μηδὲ χαίρειν θεραπευόμενοι
παραπλησίως; ἐκείνοις. τοὺς δὲ θεοὺς οὕτω προσεκύνουν ἢ ταπεινοῦντες
ἑαυτοὺς τῇ ἐπικρύψει τῆς κεφαλῆς, ἢ μᾶλλον εὐλαβούμενοί τινα φωνὴν
προσπεσεῖν αὐτοῖς ἔξωθεν εὐχομένοις ἀπαίσιον καὶ δύσφημον ἄχρι τῶν ὤτων ἀνελάμβανον τὸ ἱμάτιον ὅτι γὰρ
ἰσχυρῶς ἐφυλάττοντο ταῦτα, δῆλόν ἐστι τῷ προσιόντας ἐπὶ μαντείαν
χαλκωμάτων πατάγῳ περιψοφεῖσθαι.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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