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τερος; τίς μαχομένοις βαρύτερος ἢ δεομένοις εὐγνωμονέστερος ; [p. 416] ἔπεισί μοι τὸ τοῦ Πώρου δεῦρο μετενεγκεῖν. ἐκεῖνος γὰρ ὡς ἤχθη πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον αἰχμάλωτος, πυθομένου πῶς αὐτῷ χρήσεται, ‘βασιλικῶς,’ εἶπεν, ‘ὦ Ἀλέξανδρε.’ πάλιν δ᾽ ἐπερομένου, ‘μή τι ἄλλο;’ ‘οὐδέν,’ εἶπε, ‘πάντα γάρ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ βασιλικῶς.’ κἀμοὶ δὴ ταῖς Ἀλεξάνδρου πράξεσιν ἔπεισιν ἐπιφωνεῖν ἀεί ‘φιλοσόφως ἐν’ τούτῳ γὰρ πάντ᾽ ἔνεστι. Ῥωξάνης ἐρασθεὶς τῆς Ὀξυάρτου θυγατρὸς ἐν ταῖς αἰχμαλωτίσι χορευούσης οὐχ ὕβρισεν ἀλλ᾽ ἔγημε: φιλοσόφως
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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