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ἀλλ᾽ Ἀλέξανδρος ἠρίστα μὲν ὄρθρου [p. 450] καθεζόμενος, ἐδείπνει δὲ πρὸς ἑσπέραν βαθεῖαν, ἔπινε δὲ θύσας τοῖς θεοῖς, ἐκύβευε δὲ πρὸς Μήδιον πυρέττων, ἔπαιζε δ᾽ ὁδοιπορῶν ἅμα καὶ μανθάνων τοξεύειν καὶ ἐπιβαίνειν ἅρματος. ἔγημε δὲ Ῥωξάνην ἑαυτῷ, μόνης ἐρασθείς: τὴν δὲ Δαρείου Στάτειραν τῇ βασιλείᾳ καὶ τοῖς πράγμασι συνέφερε γὰρ ἡ τῶν γενῶν ἀνάμιξις: τῶν δ᾽ ἄλλων Περσίδων ἐκράτησε τοσοῦτον σωφροσύνῃ, ὅσον ἀνδρείᾳ Περσῶν ἄκουσαν μὲν γὰρ οὐδεμίαν εἶδεν, ἃς δ᾽ εἶδε μᾶλλον ἢ ἃς οὐκ εἶδε παρῆλθε. καὶ πᾶσιν ὢν τοῖς ἄλλοις φιλάνθρωπος, μόνοις ὑπερηφάνως τοῖς
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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