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τοιαῦτα μὲν ὁ Ἐπίκουρος εἰπὼν, ὦ Κύντε, 1 καὶ πρὶν ἀποκρίνασθαί τινα πρὸς τῷ πέρατι
τῆς στοᾶς γενομένων ἡμῶν, ᾤχετ᾽ ἀπιών: ἡμεῖς δ᾽ ὅσον τι θαυμάσαι τοῦ
ἀνθρώπου τὴν ἀτοπίαν, ἐπιστάντες σιωπῇ καὶ
πρὸς ἀλλήλους διαβλέψαντες, ἀνεστρέφομεν πάλιν ὥσπερ ἐτυγχάνομεν
περιπατοῦντες. εἶτα πρῶτος ὁ Πατροκλέας ‘τί οὖν;᾽’ εἶπεν ‘ἐᾶν
δοκεῖ τὴν ζήτησιν, ἢ τῷ λόγῳ καθάπερ παρόντος καὶ μὴ 2 παρόντος
ἀποκρινώμεθα τοῦ εἰπόντος;᾽’ ὑπολαβὼν δ᾽ ὁ Τίμων ‘ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ εἰ βαλών’ εἶπεν ‘ἀπηλλάγη, καλῶς
εἶχε περιορᾶν τὸ
βέλος ἐγκείμενον: ὁ μὲν γὰρ Βρασίδας ὡς ἔοικεν ἐξελκύσας τὸ δόρυ
τοῦ σώματος, αὐτῷ τούτῳ τὸν βαλόντα πατάξας ἀνεῖλεν ἡμῖν 3 δ᾽
ἀμύνασθαι μὲν οὐδὲν ἔργον ἐστὶ δήπου τοὺς ἄτοπον ἢ ψευδῆ λόγον εἰς ἡμᾶς ἀφέντας, ἀρκεῖ δ᾽ ἂν
αὐτοὶ, 4 [p. 418] πρὶν ἅψασθαι τὴν δόξαν, 5 ἐκβάλωμεν: 6’
‘τί οὖν’ ἔφην ἐγὼ ‘μάλιστα κεκίνηκεν ὑμᾶς τῶν εἰρημένων; ἀθρόα
γὰρ πολλὰ καὶ κατὰ τάξιν οὐδέν, ἄλλο δ᾽ ἀλλαχόθεν ὁ ἄνθρωπος 7 ὥσπερ
ὀργῇ τινι καὶ λοιδορίᾳ σπαράττων ἅμα
κατεφόρει τῆς προνοίας’
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1891. 3.
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