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Εὔανδρον ἐκ τῆς Ἑλλάδος
φυγόντες καὶ κατοικήσαντες αὐτόθι τὴν
μνησικακίαν καὶ τὴν ἔχθραν διεφύλαττον.
‘διὰ τί τὸ παλαιὸν οὐκ ἐδείπνουν ἔξω χωρὶς τῶν υἱῶν, ἔτι τὴν
παιδικὴν ἡλικίαν ἐχόντων;᾽’ ἦ τοῦτο μὲν καὶ Λυκοῦργος εἴθισε,
τοὺς παῖδας ἐπεισάγων τοῖς φιδιτίοις, ὅπως ἐθίζωνται μὴ θηριωδῶς
μηδ᾽ ἀτάκτως ἀλλὰ μετ᾽ εὐλαβείας ταῖς
ἡδοναῖς προσφέρεσθαι, τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους οἷον ἐπισκόπους καὶ θεατὰς
ἔχοντες; οὐκ ἔλαττον δὴ τοῦτο καὶ τοὺς πατέρας αὐτοὺς μᾶλλον αἰδεῖσθαι
καὶ σωφρονεῖν τῶν υἱῶν παρόντων: ὅπου γὰρ ἀναισχυντοῦσι γέροντες,
ὥς φησιν ὁ Πλάτων, 1 ἐνταῦθ᾽ ἀνάγκη καὶ νέους ἀναισχυντοτάτους εἶναι.
‘διὰ τί, τῶν ἄλλων Ῥωμαίων ἐν τῷ Φεβρουαρίῳ ’
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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