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‘τίς ὁ παίδων τάφος παρὰ Χαλκιδεῦσι;’ Κόθος καὶ Αἶκλος 1 οἱ Ξούθου
παῖδες εἰς Εὔβοιαν ἧκον οἰκήσοντες, Αἰολέων τότε τὰ πλεῖστα τῆς
νήσου κατεχόντων. ἦν δὲ τῷ Κόθῳ λόγιον
εὖ πράξειν καὶ περιέσεσθαι τῶν πολεμίων, ἐὰν πρίηται τὴν χώραν. ἀποβὰς
οὖν μετ᾽ ὀλίγων ἐνέτυχε παίζουσι παιδαρίοις παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν συμπαίζων
οὖν αὐτοῖς καὶ
φιλοφρονούμενος ἔδειξε παίγνια πολλὰ τῶν ξενικῶν. ὡς δ᾽ ἑώρα τοὺς παῖδας ἐπιθυμοῦντας λαβεῖν, οὐκ ἔφησεν
αὐτοῖς δώσειν ἄλλως, εἰ μὴ τῆς γῆς λάβοι παρ᾽ αὐτῶν οἱ δὲ παῖδες:
οὕτως 2 ἀναιρούμενοι χαμᾶθεν 3 ἐδίδοσαν καὶ τὰ παίγνια λαβόντες ἀπηλλάγησαν.
οἱ δ᾽ Αἰολεῖς αἰσθόμενοι τὸ γεγονός, καὶ
τῶν πολεμίων αὐτοῖς ἐπιπλεόντων, ὑπ᾽ ὀργῆς καὶ λύπης διεχρήσαντο τοὺς
παῖδας. ἐτάφησαν δὲ παρὰ τὴν ὁδόν, βαδίζουσιν ἐκ πόλεως ἐπὶ τὸν
Εὔριπον, καὶ ὁ τόπος ‘τάφος παίδων’ καλεῖται.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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