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καὶ παρασκευαζόμενοι τὴν
ἡμέραν ἐκείνην διετέλουν. ἢ καθάπερ ἔτι
νῦν προσευξάμενοι καὶ προσκυνήσαντες ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς ἐπιμένειν καὶ
καθίζειν εἰώθασιν, οὕτως οὐκ εὐθὺς ἐπέβαλλον ταῖς ἱεραῖς ἡμέραις τὰς
ἐνεργούς, ἀλλ᾽ ἐποίουν τι διάλειμμα καὶ διάστημα, πολλὰ τῶν πραγμάτων
δυσχερῆ καὶ ἀβούλητα φερόντων;
‘διὰ τί λευκὰ φοροῦσιν ἐν τοῖς πένθεσιν αἱ γυναῖκες ἱμάτια καὶ λευκοὺς
κεκρυφάλους;᾽’ πότερον ὡς τοὺς μάγους φασὶν πρὸς τὸν Ἅιδην καὶ τὸ
σκότος ἀντιταττομένους, τῷ δὲ φωτεινῷ καὶ λαμπρῷ συνεξομοιοῦντας
ἑαυτοὺς τοῦτο ποιεῖν: ἤ, καθάπερ τὸ
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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