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ἐκ δὲ τούτου πολλὰ καὶ τῶν ἀκαίρων ἐνίοις ἐπῄει λέγειν, ὡς οὐκ ἄχρηστον εἰδέναι καὶ φυλάττεσθαι: οἷον Πομπηίῳ Μάγνῳ φασὶν ἀπὸ τῆς μεγάλης ἐπανήκοντι στρατείας 1 τὸν διδάσκαλον τῆς θυγατρὸς ἀπόδειξιν διδόντα, βιβλίου κομισθέντος ἐνδοῦναι τῇ παιδὶ τοιαύτην ἀρχήν,
ἤλυθες ἐκ πολέμου: ὡς ὤφελες αὐτόθ᾽ ὀλέσθαι.
Κασσίῳ δὲ Λογγίνῳ λόγου προσπεσόντος ἀδεσπότου, τὸν υἱὸν ἐπὶ ξένης τεθνάναι, καὶ τἀληθὲς 2 ἔχοντος εἰπεῖν οὐδενὸς 3 οὐδ᾽ ἀνελεῖν τὸ ὕποπτον, εἰσελθὼν συγκλητικὸς ἀνὴρ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἤδη πρεσβύτερος [p. 361] ‘οὐ καταφρονήσεις 4’ ἔφη ‘Λογγῖνε, λαλιᾶς ἀπίστου καὶ κακοήθους φήμης, ὥσπερ οὐκ εἰδὼς οὐδ᾽ ἀνεγνωκὼς 5 τὸ
φήμη δ᾽ οὔ τις πάμπαν ἀπόλλυται 6
7 ’ ὁ δ᾽ ἐν Ῥόδῳ στίχον αἰτήσαντι γραμματικῷ ποιουμένῳ δεῖξιν 8 ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ προτείνας
ἔρρ᾽ ἐκ νήσου θᾶσσον, ἐλέγχιστε ζωόντων
9 ἄδηλον εἴτε παίζων ἐφύβρισεν εἴτ᾽ ἄκων ἠστόχησε. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν παρηγόρησεν ἀστείως τὸν θόρυβον.

1 R: στρατιᾶς

2 τἀληθὲς *: τὸ ἀληθὲς

3 οὐδενὸς *

4 καταφρόνησις mei

5 οὐ δρᾶν ἐγνωκὼς iidem

6 ἀπόλυται mei

7 Hes. OD 763

8 δείξειν iidem

9 Hom. κ 72

Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1892. 4.

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