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προσώπου τῆς καλύπτρας. αἱ δὲ γεγαμημέναι δι᾽ αἰσχύνην ἀναμιμούμεναι ταύτας ὡς ἑαυτῶν βελτίονας εἰς ἔθος ὅμοιον κατέστησαν.
‘διὰ τί πρὸς τὸ τοῦ Ἀγήνορος τέμενος τὰς
ὄις προσελαύνοντες οἱ Ἀργεῖοι βιβάζουσιν ;’
ἢ ὅτι κάλλιστα προβάτων ὁ Ἀγήνωρ
ἐπεμελήθη καὶ πλεῖστα ποίμνια τῶν βασιλέων ἐκτήσατο;
‘διὰ τί Βαλλαχράδας ἑαυτοὺς Ἀργείων παῖδες ἐν ἑορτῇ τινι παίζοντες ἀποκαλοῦσιν;’
ἢ ὅτι τοὺς πρώτους ὑπ᾽
Ἰνάχου καταχθέντας
ἐκ τῶν ἄκρων1 εἰς τὰ πεδία ἀχράσι διατραφῆναι λέγουσιν; ἀχράδας δὲ πρῶτον ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ
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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