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δεύτερον αἱ 1 τῶν εὐτυχῶς καὶ κατὰ νοῦν πεπραγμένων διηγήσεις λανθάνουσι
πολλοὺς εἰς μεγαλαυχίαν ὑπὸ χαρᾶς ἐκφέρουσαι καὶ κόμπον: [p. 413] ἐμπεσόντες γὰρ εἰς τὸ λέγειν νίκας τινὰς ἑαυτῶν ἢ κατορθώσεις ἐν
πολιτεύμασιν ἢ παρ᾽ ἡγεμόσι πράξεις καὶ λόγους εὐδοκιμήσαντας, οὐ
κρατοῦσιν οὐδὲ μετριάζουσιν. ᾧ γένει μάλιστα τῆς περιαυτολογίας τὸ
ναυτικὸν ἰδεῖν ἔστι καὶ στρατιωτικὸν
ἁλισκόμενον, συμβαίνει δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἐκ πότων ἡγεμονικῶν καὶ πραγμάτων
μεγάλων ἐπανήκουσι τοῦτο πάσχειν ἐπιεικῶς: μεμνημένοι γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐπιφανῶν καὶ
βασιλικῶν συγκαταπλέκουσι περὶ αὑτῶν εὐφημίας τινὰς ὑπ᾽ ἐκείνων εἰρημένας, καὶ νομίζουσιν οὐχ αὑτοὺς ἐπαινεῖν
ἀλλ᾽ ἑτέρων ἐπαίνους διηγεῖσθαι περὶ αὑτῶν γενομένους. οἱ δ᾽ ὅλως
οἴονται λανθάνειν τοὺς ἀκούοντας, ὅταν βασιλέων καὶ αὐτοκρατόρων
δεξιώσεις καὶ προσαγορεύσεις καὶ φιλοφροσύνας ἀπαγγέλλωσιν, ὡς οὐχ αὑτῶν ἐπαίνους ἀποδείξεις δὲ τῆς ἐκείνων
ἐπιεικείας καὶ φιλανθρωπίας διεξιόντες. ὅθεν εὖ μάλα δεῖ προσέχειν ἑαυτοῖς περὶ τοὺς
ἑτέρων ἐπαίνους, ὅπως καθαροὶ καὶ ἀνύποπτοι φιλαυτίας καὶ περιαυτολογίας
ὦσι, καὶ μὴ δοκῶμεν ‘Πάτροκλον
πρόφασιν’ 2 σφᾶς δ᾽ αὐτοὺς δι᾽ ἐκείνων ἐπαινεῖν.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1891. 3.
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