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εὐθὺς οὖν ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς σκοπῶμεν. ἀρχὴν δὲ φιλίας; ἔφαμεν εἶναι τοῖς πλείστοις τὴν ταὐτὰ μὲν ἐπιεικῶς ἀσπαζομένην ἔθη καὶ ἤθη τοῖς δ᾽ [p. 125] αὐτοῖς χαίρουσαν ἐπιτηδεύμασι καὶ πράγμασι καὶ διατριβαῖς ὁμοιοπαθῆ διάθεσιν καὶ φύσιν, ἐφ᾽ ἧς καὶ ταῦτ᾽ εἴρηται
γέρων γέροντι γλῶσσαν ἡδίστην ἔχει, 1
παῖς παιδί, καὶ γυναικὶ πρόσφορον γυνή,
νοσῶν τ᾽ ἀνὴρ νοσοῦντι, καὶ δυσπραξίᾳ
ληφθεὶς ἐπῳδός ἐστι τῷ πειρωμένῳ
εἰδὼς οὖν ὁ κόλαξ ὅτι τὸ χαίρειν τοῖς ὁμοίοις καὶ τὸ χρῆσθαι καὶ ἀγαπᾶν ἔμφυτόν ἐστι, ταύτῃ πρῶτον ἐπιχειρεῖ πλησιάζειν ἑκάστῳ καὶ παρασκηνοῦν, ὥσπερ ἔν τισι νομαῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασι καὶ διατριβαῖς περὶ ταὐτὰ καὶ σπουδαῖς καὶ διαίταις ἀτρέμα παραβάλλων καὶ προσαναχρωννύμενος, ἄχρι οὗ λαβὴν παραδῷ καὶ ψαύοντι τιθασὸς γένηται καὶ συνήθης, ψέγων μὲν οἷς ἐκεῖνον αἰσθάνεται πράγμασι καὶ βίοις καὶ ἀνθρώποις ἀχθόμενον, ἐπαινέτης δὲ τῶν ἀρεσκόντων . οὐ μέτριος ἀλλ᾽ ὥσθ᾽ ὑπερβάλλειν σὺν ἐκπλήξει καὶ θαύματι, φαινόμενος, βεβαιῶν δὲ τὸ φιλοῦν καὶ τὸ μισοῦν ὡς κρίσει μᾶλλον ἢ πάθει γιγνόμενον.

1 Nauck. p. 696

Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1888. 1.

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