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ὅσοι λόγον Ἑλλήνων ἔχουσιν, ἐξηπάτηκεν ἡ φήμη τῶν τότε κατορθωμάτων, ὡς ὑπερφυῶν γενομένων;
τί δῆτα; γραφικὸς ἁνήρ, καὶ ἡδὺς ὁ
λόγος, καὶ χάρις ἔπεστι καὶ δεινότης καὶ ὥρα τοῖς
διηγήμασι μῦθον δ᾽ ὡς ὅτ᾽ ἀοιδός, ἐπισταμένως μὲν οὒ λιγυρῶς δὲ καὶ γλαφυρῶς ἠγόρευκεν. ἀμέλει
[p. 263] ταῦτα καὶ κηλεῖ καὶ προσάγεται πάντας, ἀλλ᾽ ὥσπερ
ἐν ῥόδοις δεῖ κανθαρίδα φυλάττεσθαι τὴν βλασφημίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ κακολογίαν, λείοις καὶ ἁπαλοῖς
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1893. 5.
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