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‘διὰ τί δὲ δῶρον λαβεῖν ἀνδρὶ παρὰ γυναικὸς καὶ γυναικὶ παρ᾽ ἀνδρὸς
ἀπείρηται’ πότερον, ὡς Σόλων γράψας τὰς δόσεις κυρίας εἶναι τῶν
τελευτώντων, πλὴν εἰ μή τις ἀνάγκῃ συνεχόμενος ἢ γυναικὶ πειθόμενος τὴν μὲν ἀνάγκην ὡς βιαζομένην ὑπεξείλετο, τὴν δ᾽ ἡδονὴν ὡς
παραλογιζομένην, οὕτως ὑπενοήθησαν αἱ γυναικῶν καὶ ἀνδρῶν δόσεις: ἢ
φαυλότατον ἡγούμενοι σημεῖον εὐνοίας τὸ διδόναι διδόασι γὰρ καὶ
ἀλλότριοι καὶ φιλοῦντες ἐκ τοῦ γάμου τὴν
τοιαύτην ἀρέσκειαν ἀνεῖλον, ὅπως ἄμισθον καὶ προῖκα καὶ δι᾽ αὑτὸ μὴ
δι᾽ ἄλλο τὸ φιλεῖσθαι καὶ φιλεῖν; ὅτι τῷ λαμβάνειν διαφθειρόμεναι
μάλιστα προσίενται τοὺς: ἀλλοτρίους, σεμνὸν ἐφάνη τὸ μὴ διδόντες ἀγαπᾶν
τοὺς ἰδίους; ἢ μᾶλλον
ὅτι δεῖ καὶ γυναιξὶ
κοινὰ τὰ ἀνδρῶν εἶναι καὶ ἀνδράσι τὰ γυναικῶν; μανθάνει γὰρ ὁ λαβὼν
τὸ δοθὲν ἀλλότριον ἡγεῖσθαι τὸ μὴ δοθέν, ὥστ᾽ ὀλίγον διδόντες
ἀλλήλοις τὸ πᾶν ἀφαιροῦνται.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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