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καὶ τραυμάτων τὸ σῶμα μεστὸς ὀφθεὶς ἠνίασε τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον πυνθανομένου δὲ τὴν: αἰτίαν, ὡμολόγησε Τελεσίππας ἐρᾶν καὶ συνακολουθεῖν ἐπὶ θάλατταν ἀπιούσης μὴ δυνάμενος ἀπολειφθῆναι. ‘καὶ τίνος,’ ἔφη, ‘τὸ γύναιόν ἐστιν,’ ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος, ‘καὶ πρὸς τίνα δεῖ διαλέγεσθαι;’ τοῦ δ᾽ Ἀντιγένους εἰπόντος ὡς ἐλευθέρα ἐστίν, ‘ [p. 456] οὐκοῦν,’ εἶπε, ‘πείθωμεν αὐτὴν καταμένειν, ἐπαγγελλόμενοι καὶ διδόντες.’ οὕτω παντὶ μᾶλλον ἐρῶντι συγγνώμην εἶχεν ἢ αὑτῷ. καὶ μὴν καὶ Φιλώτας ὁ Παρμενίωνος τροφόν
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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