Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, stephpage 282b

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ἐξ ἀδήλου ¹ πρῶτον ἔρχεται νέα
πρόσωπα καλλύνουσα καὶ πληρουμένη,
χὤταν περ αὑτῆς εὐπρεπεστάτη ² φανῇ,
πάλιν διαρρεῖ κἀπὶ μηδὲν ἔρχεται;

ἢ πειθαρχίας ἦν μάθημα βασιλευομένους μὴ δυσχεραίνειν, ἀλλ᾽ ὥσπερ ἡ σελήνη προσέχειν ἐθέλει τῷ κρείττονι καὶ δευτερεύειν

ἀεὶ παπταίνουσα πρὸς αὐγὰς ἠελίοιο

³ κατὰ τὸν Παρμενίδην οὕτω τὴν δευτέραν τάξιν ἀγαπᾶν χρωμένους τῷ ἡγεμόνι καὶ τῆς ἀπ᾽, ἐκείνου δυνάμεως καὶ τιμῆς ἀπολαύοντας; [p. 297]

‘διὰ τί τὸν μὲν ἐνιαυτὸν τοῦ Διὸς: νομίζουσι, τοὺς δὲ μῆνας τῆς: Ἥρας;᾽’ ἦ ὅτι τῶν μὲν

1 ἐξ ἀδήλου] Nauck. p. 253

2 εὐπρεπεστάτη p. 517 d: εὐγενεστάτη

3 Mullach. 1 p. 129

Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.

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