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Νεόπλουτα δ᾽ ἦν τοῦ Λουκούλλου τὰ δεῖπνα τὰ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, οὐ μόνον στρωμναῖς ἁλουργέσι καὶ διαλίθοις ἐκπώμασι καὶ χοροῖς καὶ ἀκροάμασιν ἐπεισοδίοις, ἀλλ᾽ ὄψων τε παντοδαπῶν καὶ πεμμάτων περιττῶς διαπεπονημένων παρασκευαῖς ζηλωτὸν ἀνελευθέροις ποιοῦντος ἑαυτόν. ὁ γοῦν Πομπήιος εὐδοκίμησε νοσῶν:
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τοῦ γὰρ ἰατροῦ κίχλην αὐτὸν λαβεῖν κελεύσαντος, τῶν δ᾽ οἰκετῶν οὐκ ἂν εὑρεῖν ἀλλαχόθι φαμένων θέρους ὥρᾳ κίχλην ἢ παρὰ Λουκούλλῳ σιτευομένην, οὐκ εἴασε λαβεῖν ἐκεῖθεν, ἀλλ᾽ εἰπὼν πρὸς τὸν ἰατρόν ‘οὐκοῦν, εἰ μὴ Λούκουλλος ἐτρύφα, Πομπήιος οὐκ ἂν ἔζησεν;’ ἄλλο τι παρασκευάσαι τῶν εὐπορίστων ἐκέλευσε.
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Κάτων δ᾽ ἦν αὐτῷ
φίλος καὶ οἰκεῖος, οὕτω δὲ τὸν βίον αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν δίαιταν ἐδυσχέραινεν, ὥστε, νέου τινὸς ἐν τῇ βουλῇ λόγον ἐπαχθῆ καὶ μακρὸν ἀκαίρως ὑπὲρ εὐτελείας καὶ σωφροσύνης διελθόντος, ἐπαναστὰς ὁ Κάτων ‘οὐ παύσῃ,’ ἔφη, ‘σὺ πλουτῶν μὲν ὡς Κράσσος, ζῶν δ᾽ ὡς Λούκουλλος, λέγων δὲ ὡς Κάτων;’ ἔνιοι δὲ τοῦτο ῥηθῆναι μὲν οὕτως, ὑπὸ Κάτωνος δὲ οὐ λέγουσιν.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 2.
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