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ἐν δὲ
ταῖς στρατηγίαις αὐταῖς Νικίου μὲν οὐκ ὀλίγα γενναῖα: καὶ γὰρ μάχαις πολλαῖς ἐνίκησε τοὺς πολεμίους, καὶ τοῦ λαβεῖν Συρακούσας ὀλίγον ἐδέησε, καὶ πάντα δι᾽ αὑτὸν
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οὐκ ἔπταισεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ νόσον ἄν τις αἰτιάσαιτο καὶ φθόνον τῶν οἴκοι πολιτῶν Κράσσος δὲ διὰ πλῆθος ἁμαρτημάτων οὐδὲν τῇ τύχῃ χρηστὸν ἀποδείξασθαι παρῆκεν, ὥστε θαυμάζειν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀβελτερίαν οὐ τῆς Πάρθων δυνάμεως ἡττηθεῖσαν, ἀλλὰ τῆς Ῥωμαίων εὐτυχίας περιγενομένην.
[2]
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ὁ μὲν μηδενὸς τῶν ἀπὸ μαντικῆς καταφρονῶν,
ὁ δὲ πάντα ὑπερορῶν ὁμοίως ἀπώλοντο,
χαλεπὴ μὲν ἐν τούτοις ἡ ἀσφάλεια καὶ δύσκριτος,
ἐπιεικέστερον δὲ1 τοῦ παρανόμου καὶ αὐθάδους τὸ
μετὰ δόξης παλαιᾶς καὶ συνήθους δι᾽ εὐλάβειαν ἁμαρτανόμενον.
περὶ μέντοι τὴν τελευτὴν ἀμεμπτότερος ὁ Κράσσος οὐ παραδοὺς ἑαυτὸν οὐδὲ δεθεὶς οὐδὲ φενακισθείς, ἀλλ᾽ εἴξας τοῖς φίλοις δεομένοις καὶ παρασπονδηθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων ὁ δὲ Νικίας αἰσχρᾶς καὶ ἀκλεοῦς ἐλπίδι σωτηρίας ὑποπεσὼν τοῖς πολεμίοις αἰσχίονα ἑαυτῷ τὸν θάνατον ἐποίησεν.
1 ἐπιεικέστερον δὲ a following αὐτῆς of the MSS. is suspected by Coraës, lamely defended by Sintenis, and bracked by Bekker.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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