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‘ὁ παρὰ δρυῒ σκότος’
διὰ τὸ παῖδας αὐτῶν καὶ
πατέρας καὶ ἄνδρας ἐκεῖ φονευθῆναι.
‘τίνες οἱ παρὰ Κρησὶ λεγόμενοι κατακαῦται;’
Τυρρηνοὺς
φασι τὰς Ἀθηναίων θυγατέρας καὶ γυναῖκας ἐκ Βραύρωνος ἁρπάσαντας, ὁπηνίκα Λῆμνον καὶ Ἴμβρον κατῴκουν, εἶτ᾽ ἐκπεσόντας, εἰς τὴν Λακωνικὴν ἀφικέσθαι καὶ γενέσθαι
ἐπιμειξίαν αὐτοῖς μέχρι παίδων γενέσεως πρὸς τὰς ἐγχωρίους γυναῖκας: ἐκ δ᾽
ὑποψίας
καὶ διαβολῆς πάλιν ἀναγκασθέντας1 ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν Λακωνικήν, μετὰ παίδων καὶ γυναικῶν εἰς Κρήτην κατᾶραι,
1 ἀναγκασθέντας Wyttenbach: ἀναγκασθέντες.
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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