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‘ ἐνδελεχέσι καὶ
διαπονήσας τὸ σῶμα γυμνασίοις, ἐσκέδασε καὶ ἀπέπεμψε, μεγάλου πάθους
σπέρμα μικρὸν οὐκ ἐάσας εἰς μέγεθος προελθεῖν. ἦ γὰρ 1 οὐχ οὕτω
παρακελευόμεθα, προσέχειν ἀξιοῦντες ἑαυτοῖς καὶ [p. 451]
παραφυλάττεσθαι καὶ μὴ παραμελεῖν ὅσοι γεγόνασιν ἐκ πατέρων ἢ μητέρων
νοσηματικῶν, ἀλλ᾽ εὐθὺς ἐξωθεῖν τὴν ἐγκεκραμένην ἀρχὴν εὐκίνητον
οὖσαν καὶ ἀκροσφαλῆ προκαταλαμβάνοντας;᾽’
‘πάνυ μὲν οὖν
’ ἔφασαν. ‘οὐ τοίνυν ἄτοπον’ εἶπον ‘ἀλλ᾽ ἀναγκαῖον, οὐδὲ
γελοῖον ἀλλ᾽ ὠφέλιμον πρᾶγμα ποιοῦμεν, ἐπιληπτικῶν ’
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1891. 3.
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