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Ὀρόντου

Ὀρόντης, ὁ βασιλέως Ἀρταξέρξου γαμβρός, ἀτιμίᾳ περιπεσὼν διὰ κατηγορίαν1 καὶ καταγνωσθεὶς ἔφη, καθάπερ οἱ τῶν ἀριθμητικῶν δάκτυλοι νῦν μὲν μυριάδας νῦν δὲ μονάδας τιθέναι2 δύνανται, τὸ [p. 22] αὐτὸ καὶ τοὺς τῶν βασιλέων φίλους, νῦν μὲν τὸ πᾶν δύνασθαι νῦν δὲ τοὐλάχιστον.

1 διὰ κατηγορίαν F.C.B. from Diodorus, xv. 10: δι᾽ ὀργὴν

2 τιθέναι] Cobet would omit.

Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.

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