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κατασκευάσας τὴν θεὸν ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ προσηγόρευσεν.
εἰ δὴ τοῦτ᾽ ἀληθές ἐστι, φαίνεται οὐχ ἕνα πλουτίσαι, πολλοὺς δὲ σῶσαι δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἡ θεὸς θελήσασα.
‘διὰ τί τοῖς Σαμίοις, ὅταν τῷ Ἑρμῇ τῷ
χαριδότῃ θύωσι, κλέπτειν ἐφεῖται τῷ βουλομένῳ καὶ λωποδυτεῖν;’
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ὅτι κατὰ χρησμὸν ἐκ τῆς νήσου μεταστάντες εἰς Μυκάλην ἀπὸ λῃστείας δέκα ἔτη διεγένοντο: καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα πλεύσαντες αὖθις εἰς τὴν νῆσον, ἐκράτησαν τῶν πολεμίων.1
‘ἀπὸ τίνος Πάναιμα τόπος ἐν τῇ Σαμίων νήσῳ καλεῖται;’
ἢ ὅτι φεύγουσαι Διόνυσον2 αἱ Ἀμαζόνες ἐκ τῆς
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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