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‘διὰ τί τοῖς μὴ στρατευομένοις μὲν ἐν στρατοπέδῳ δ᾽ ἄλλως
ἀναστρεφομένοις οὐκ ἐξῆν ἄνδρα βαλεῖν πολέμιον οὐδὲ τρῶσαι ;᾽’ καὶ
τοῦτο Κάτων 1 ὁ πρεσβύτης ἐν
ἐπιστολῇ τινι δεδήλωκε, γράφων πρὸς τὸν υἱὸν καὶ κελεύων, εἰ παρεθείη
τῆς στρατείας
ἀποπληρώσας τὸν
χρόνον, ὑποστρέφειν: ἢ προσμένοντα λαβεῖν παρὰ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τὸ ἐξεῖναι
τρῶσαι καὶ ἀνελεῖν πολέμιον. πότερον ὅτι τὴν ἀνάγκην μόνην ἐξουσίαν
εἶναι δεῖ τοῦ ἀνελεῖν ἄνθρωπον, ὁ δ᾽ ἄνευ νόμου καὶ προστάγματος τοῦτο
ποιῶν ἀνδροφόνος ἐστὶ διὸ καὶ Χρυσάνταν
2 ἐπῄνεσεν ὁ Κῦρος,
ὅτι μέλλων ἀναιρεῖν πολέμιον καὶ τὴν κοπίδα διηρμένος, ἀκούσας τὸ
ἀνακλητικὸν ἀφῆκε τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ οὐκ ἔπαισεν ὡς κεκωλυμένος ἢ δεῖ τὸν συνιστάμενον
πολεμίοις καὶ μαχόμενον, ἂν ἀποδειλιάσῃ, μὴ
ἀνυπεύθυνον εἶναι μηδ᾽ ἀθῷον; οὐ γὰρ οὕτω βαλών τινα καὶ τρώσας
ὠφέλησεν, ὡς φυγὼν καὶ ἀναχωρήσας ἔβλαψεν. ὁ μὲν οὖν ἀφειμένος
στρατείας ἀπήλλακται τῶν στρατιωτικῶν νόμων ὁ ὁ αἰτησάμενος τὸ πράττειν
τὰ τῶν στρατευομένων πάλιν ἑαυτὸν ὑπεύθυνον
τῷ νόμῳ καὶ τῷ στρατηγῷ δέδωκεν.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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