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ὁ δ᾽ Ἀμμώνιος, ἅτε δὴ καὶ αὐτὸς οὐ τὸ φαυλότατον ἐν μαθηματικῇ
φιλοσοφίας τιθέμενος, ἥσθη τε τοῖς λεγομένοις καὶ εἶπεν ‘οὐκ ἄξιον
πρὸς ταῦτα λίαν ἀκριβῶς ἀντιλέγειν τοῖς
νέοις, πλὴν ὅτι
τῶν ἀριθμῶν ἕκαστος οὐκ ὀλίγα βουλομένοις ἐπαινεῖν καὶ ὑμνεῖν
παρέξει. καὶ τί δεῖ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων λέγειν; ἡ γὰρ ἱερὰ τοῦ
Ἀπόλλωνος ἑβδομὰς ἀναλώσει τὴν ἡμέραν πρότερον ἢ λόγῳ τὰς
δυνάμεις αὐτῆς ἁπάσας ἐπεξελθεῖν. εἶτα
τῷ κοινῷ νόμῳ [p. 20]
‘πολεμοῦντας’ ἅμα καὶ ‘τῷ πολλῷ χρόνῳ’ 1 τοὺς σοφοὺς
ἀποφανοῦμεν ἄνδρας, εἰ τὴν ἑβδομάδα τῆς προεδρίας παρώσαντες τῷ θεῷ
τὴν πεμπάδα καθιέρωσαν 2 ὡς μᾶλλόν τι προσήκουσαν. οὔτ᾽ οὖν ἀριθμὸν
οὔτε τάξιν οὔτε σύνδεσμον οὔτ᾽ ἄλλο
τῶν ἐλλιπῶν μορίων
οὐδὲν οἶμαι τὸ γράμμα σημαίνειν: ἀλλ᾽ ἔστιν αὐτοτελὴς τοῦ θεοῦ
προσαγόρευσις καὶ προσφώνησις, ἅμα τῷ ῥήματι τὸν φθεγγόμενον εἰς
ἔννοιαν καθιστᾶσα τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ δυνάμεως. ὁ μὲν γὰρ θεὸς ἕκαστον ἡμῶν ἐνταῦθα προσιόντα οἷον
ἀσπαζόμενος προσαγορεύει τὸ 3 ‘γνῶθι σαυτόν,'’ ὃ δὴ τοῦ χαῖρε
οὐδὲν μεῖόν ἐστιν. ἡμεῖς δὲ πάλιν ἀμειβόμενοι τὸν θεὸν ‘εἶ’
φαμέν, ὡς ἀληθῆ καὶ ἀψευδῆ καὶ μόνην μόνῳ προσήκουσαν τὴν τοῦ
εἶναι προσαγόρευσιν ἀποδιδόντες.’
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1891. 3.
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