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σμύρνα Κινύρου θυγάτηρ διὰ μῆνιν Ἀφροδίτης
ἠράσθη τοῦ
γεννήσαντος, καὶ τῇ τροφῷ τὴν ἀνάγκην τοῦ
ἔρωτος ἐδήλωσεν: ἡ δὲ δόλῳ ὑπῆγε τὸν δεσπότην ἔφη γὰρ γείτονα
παρθένον ἐρᾶν αὐτοῦ καὶ αἰσχύνεσθαι ἐν φανερῷ προσιέναι. ὁ δὲ συνῄει.
ποτὲ δὲ θελήσας τὴν ἐρῶσαν μαθεῖν φῶς ᾔτησεν, ἰδὼν δὲ ξιφήρης τὴν
ἀσελγεστάτην ἐδίωκεν. ἡ δὲ κατὰ πρόνοιαν
Ἀφροδίτης εἰς ὁμώνυμον δένδρον μετεμορφώθη: καθὰ Θεόδωρος 1 ἐν ταῖς
Μεταμορφώσεσιν. Οὐαλερία
Τουσκλαναρία κατὰ μῆνιν Ἀφροδίτης ἐρασθεῖσα Οὐαλερίου τοῦ πατρὸς τῇ
τροφῷ ἀνεκοίνωσεν: ἡ δὲ τὸν δεσπότην δόλῳ
ὑπῆλθεν, εἰποῦσα ὡς
αἰδεῖται κατ᾽ ὄψιν μίσγεσθαι, τῶν τε [p. 370] γειτόνων εἶναι
τὴν παρθένου. καὶ οἰνωθεὶς ὁ 2 πατὴρ ᾔτει φῶς, ἡ δὲ τροφὸς φθάσασα
διήγειρεν, ἣτις ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀγροικίαις ἦν ἐγκύμων τυγχάνουσα: ποτὲ δὲ
κατὰ κρημνῶν ἐνεχθείσης τὸ βρέφος ἔζη: κατιοῦσα δ᾽ ἐγκύμων κατέστη καὶ εἰς τὸν ὡρισμένον χρόνον ἐγέννησεν
Αἰγίπανα, κατὰ τὴν Ῥωμαίων φωνὴν Σιλουᾶνον. ὁ δὲ Οὐαλέριος ἀθυμήσας
κατὰ τῶν αὐτῶν ἔρριψε 3 κρημνῶν ὡς Ἀριστείδης 4 Μιλήσιος ἐν τρίτῳ
Ἰταλικῶν.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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