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φορεῖν ἣν ἐκείνη στολὴν ἐφόρει, καὶ τὴν στολὴν
‘ἀφάβρωμα δι᾽’
ἐκείνην ὠνόμασε. δοκεῖ δὲ
τῇ δόξῃ τῆς γυναικὸς καὶ ὁ θεὸς βοηθῆσαι:
πολλάκις γὰρ τὰς ἐσθῆτας ἀλλάξαι βουλομένας τὰς Μεγαρίδας χρησμῷ διεκώλυσε.
‘τίς ὁ δορίξενος1;’
τὸ παλαιὸν ἡ Μεγαρὶς ᾠκεῖτο κατὰ κώμας, εἰς πέντε μέρη νενεμημένων τῶν πολιτῶν. ἐκαλοῦντο
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δὲ Ἡραεῖς καὶ Πιραεῖς καὶ Μεγαρεῖς καὶ Κυνοσουρεῖς καὶ Τριποδίσκιοι.2 τῶν δὲ Κορινθίων πόλεμον αὐτοῖς ἐξεργασαμένων πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀεὶ γὰρ ἐπεβούλευον ὑφ᾽ αὑτοῖς ποιήσασθαι τὴν Μεγαρικήν,
1 δορίξενος] δορύξενος in nearly all mss.
2 Τριποδίσκιοι van Herwerden: τριποδισκαῖοι or τριποδισκοῦνοι.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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