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Σκιλούρου

Σκιλοῦρος ὀγδοήκοντα1 παῖδας ἄρρενας ἀπολιπὼν, ἐπεὶ τελευτᾶν ἔμελλε, δέσμην ἀκοντίων ἑκάστῳ προτείνων ἐκέλευε καταθραῦσαι: πάντων δὲ ἀπαγορευσάντων, καθ᾽ ἓν αὐτὸς ἐξελὼν ἀκόντιον ἅπαντα ῥᾳδίως συνέκλασε, διδάσκων ἐκείνους, ὅτι συνεστῶτες ἰσχυροὶ διαμενοῦσιν, ἀσθενεῖς δ᾽ ἔσονται διαλυθέντες καὶ στασιάσαντες.

1 ὀγδοήκοντα] ὁ ὀγδοήκοντα van Herwerden.

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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