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‘διὰ τί τῶν ἄλλων ἱερέων τὸν καταδικασθέντα καὶ φυγόντα παύοντες
ἕτερον αἱροῦνται, τοῦ δ᾽ ‘αὔγουρος,’ ἕως ζῇ, κἂν ἐπὶ τοῖς
μεγίστοις ἀδικήμασι καταγνῶσιν, οὐκ ἀφαιροῦνται τὴν ἱερωσύνην
‘αὔγουρας’ δὲ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῶν οἰωνῶν καλοῦσι;᾽’ πότερον,
ὡς ἔνιοι λέγουσι, βούλονται μηδένα τὰ τῶν
ἱερῶν ἀπόρρητα γιγνώσκειν, ὃς οὐκ ἔστιν ἱερεύς: ἢ κατειλημμένον
ὅρκοις τὸν αὔγουρα μηδενὶ φράσειν τὰ τῶν ἱερῶν 1 ἀπολῦσαι τῶν ὅρκων οὐ
θέλουσιν ἰδιώτην
γενόμενον; 2 ἢ τιμῆς οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδ᾽ ἀρχῆς
ἀλλ᾽ ἐπιστήμης ὄνομα καὶ τέχνης ὁ αὔγουρ; ὅμοιον οὖν τῷ τὸν
μουσικὸν ἀποψηφίσασθαι μουσικὸν μὴ εἶναι καὶ τὸν ἰατρὸν ἰατρὸν τὸ
κωλύειν μάντιν εἶναι τὸν μάντιν, ἀφελέσθαι μὴ δυναμένους τὴν δύναμιν
αὐτοῦ, κἂν ἀφέλωνται τὴν προσηγορίαν. ἄλλον δ᾽ οὐ καθιστᾶσιν, εἰκότως τὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἀριθμὸν τῶν αὐγούρων
φυλάττοντες.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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