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τῷ κόλπῳ κομίζοντες,
ἢ μᾶλλον ὅτι τοὺς ἀξίους ἄρχειν οὐ γένεσιν οὐδὲ χρήμασιν οὐδὲ
δόξαις ἀλλὰ τραύμασι καὶ ὠτειλαῖς ἔκρινον; ὅπως οὖν ταῦτα καθορῷτο
τοῖς ἐντυγχάνουσιν, ἀχίτωνες ἐπὶ τὰς [p. 282] παραγγελίας 1
κατῄεσαν; ἢ καθάπερ τῷ δεξιοῦσθαι καὶ παρακαλεῖν καὶ ὑποπίπτειν, οὕτω
τῇ γυμνότητι ταπεινοῦντες ἑαυτοὺς ἐδημαγώγουν;
‘διὰ τί ὁ ἱερεὺς τοῦ Διός, ἀποθανούσης
αὐτῷ τῆς γυναικός, ἀπετίθετο τὴν ἀρχήν, ὡς Ἀτήιος 2 ἱστόρηκε;᾽’ πότερον
ὅτι τοῦ μὴ λαβόντος ὁ λαβὼν εἶτ᾽ ἀποβαλὼν γυναῖκα γαμετὴν ἀτυχέστερος
ὁ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ γεγαμηκότος οἶκος τέλειος, ὁ δὲ τοῦ γήμαντος εἶτ᾽
ἀποβαλόντος οὐκ ἀτελὴς μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ
πεπηρωμένος: ἢ συνιερᾶται μὲν ἡ γυνὴ τῷ ἀνδρὶ
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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