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ἀδελφὸς ὑπομειδιῶν, ὥσπερ εἰώθει πρὸς ἐμέ πῶς ‘’ ἔφη ‘ποιοῦμεν,
ὦ Καφεισία; προϊέμεθα 1 τὴν
πενίαν τοῖς χρήμασι καὶ σιωπῶμεν;’
‘ἥκιστ᾽’ ἔφην ἐγώ ‘τὴν φίλην καὶ ‘ἀγαθὴν κουροτρόφον :’ ἀλλ᾽
ἄμυνε σὸς γὰρ ὁ λόγος.’
2
‘καὶ μὴν ἐγώ’ εἶπεν ‘ὦ πάτερ, ταύτῃ μόνον 3 τὴν οἰκίαν
ἐδεδίειν ἁλώσιμον ὑπὸ χρημάτων εἶναι, κατὰ τὸ Καφισίου σῶμα, καλῆς
μὲν ἐσθῆτος δεόμενον ἵνα τοῖς ἐρασταῖς
ἐγκαλλωπίσηται τοσούτοις οὖσιν, ἀφθόνου δὲ καὶ πολλῆς; τροφῆς ἵν᾽
ἀντέχῃ πρὸς τὰ γυμνάσια καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἐν ταῖς παλαίστραις ἀγῶνας:
ὁπηνίκα δ᾽ οὗτος οὐ προδίδωσι τὴν πενίαν οὐδ᾽ ὡς βαφὴν ἀνίησι τὴν
πάτριον πενίαν,
’
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1891. 3.
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