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ὀλίγον δὲ πρὸ Πυθίων τῶν ἐπὶ Καλλιστράτου πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν
ἐναντίων τῆς οἰκουμένης περάτων ἔτυχον ἄνδρες ἱεροὶ δύο συνδραμόντες
εἰς Δελφούς, Δημήτριος μὲν ὁ γραμματικὸς ἐκ
Βρεττανίας εἰς Ταρσὸν ἀνακομιζόμενος οἴκαδε, [p. 70]
Κλεόμβροτος δ᾽ ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος, πολλὰ μὲν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ περὶ τὴν
Τρωγλοδυτικὴν γῆν πεπλανημένος, πόρρω δὲ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης
ἀναπεπλευκὼς οὐ κατ᾽ ἐμπορίαν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀνὴρ φιλοθεάμων καὶ φιλομαθὴς
οὐσίαν δ᾽ ἔχων
ἱκανὴν καὶ τὸ πλείονα τῶν ἱκανῶν ἔχειν οὐκ ἄξιον πολλοῦ ποιούμενος
ἐχρῆτο τῇ σχολῇ πρὸς τὰ τοιαῦτα, καὶ συνῆγεν ἱστορίαν οἷον ὕλην
φιλοσοφίας, θεολογίαν ὥσπερ αὐτὸς ἐκάλει τέλος ἐχούσης . νεωστὶ δὲ
γεγονὼς παρ᾽ Ἄμμωνα, 1 τὰ μὲν ἄλλα τῶν ἐκεῖ δῆλος ἦν μὴ πάνυ τεθαυμακώς, περὶ
δὲ τοῦ λύχνου τοῦ ἀσβέστου διηγεῖτο λόγον ἄξιον σπουδῆς λεγόμενον ὑπὸ
τῶν ἱερέων. ἀεὶ γὰρ ἔλαττον ἀναλίσκειν ἔλαιον ἔτους ἑκάστου, καὶ
τοῦτο ποιεῖσθαι τεκμήριον ἐκείνους τῆς τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν ἀνωμαλίας,
τὸν ἕτερον τοῦ
προάγοντος ἀεὶ τῷ χρόνῳ βραχύτερον ποιούσης εἰκὸς γὰρ ἐν ἐλάττονι
χρόνῳ τὸ δαπανώμενον ἔλαττον εἶναι.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1891. 3.
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