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‘διὰ τί τοὺς ἀπάτορας ‘σπορίους’
υἱοὺς
καλοῦσιν;’
οὐ γάρ, ὡς Ἕλληνες νομίζουσι, καὶ λέγουσιν
οἱ ῥήτορες ἐν ταῖς δίκαις, συμφορητοῦ τινος καὶ
κοινοῦ σπέρματος γεγόνασιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔστιν ὁ Σπόριος τῶν πρώτων ὀνομάτων, ὡς ὁ Σέξτος καὶ ὁ Δέκιμος
καὶ ὁ Γάιος. τὰ δὲ πρῶτα τῶν ὀνομάτων οὐχ
ὁλογραφοῦσιν ἀλλ᾽ ἢ δι᾽ ἑνὸς γράμματος, ὡς τὸν Τίτον καὶ τὸν Λούκιον καὶ τὸν Μᾶρκον, ἢ διὰ
δυοῖν, ὡς τὸν Τιβέριον καὶ τὸν Γναῖον, ἢ διὰ τριῶν, ὡς τὸν Σέξτον καὶ τὸν Σερούιον. ἔστιν οὖν
καὶ ὁ Σπόριος τῶν διὰ δυοῖν γραφομένων, τοῦ ς
καὶ τοῦ π. γράφουσι δὲ διὰ τούτων καὶ τοὺς
ἀπάτορας ‘σίνε πάτρε’
οἷον ἄνευ πατρός, τῷ μὲν
ς τὸ ‘σίνε’
τῷ δὲ π τὸ ‘πάτρε’
σημαίνοντες.
τοῦτ᾽ οὖν τὴν πλάνην ἐποίησε, τὸ διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν γραμμάτων τὸ ‘σίνε πάτρε’
καὶ τὸν Σπόριον
γράφεσθαι.
λεκτέον δὲ καὶ τὸν ἕτερον λόγον, ἔστι δ᾽
ἀτοπώτερος: τοὺς γὰρ Σαβίνους φασὶ τὸ τῆς γυναικὸς
αἰδοῖον ὀνομάζειν σπόριον, εἶθ᾽ οἷον ἐφυβρίζοντας
οὕτω προσαγορεύειν τὸν ἐκ γυναικὸς ἀγάμου καὶ ἀνεγγύου γεγενημένον.
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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