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[3] κανόνας αὐτοῖς τάξας, οὕς αὐτὸς ἔγραψε νόμους. ἐπεὶ δ᾽ αὐτῷ τὰ ἐν τῇ πόλει πράγματα τὸν κράτιστον εἰλήφει κόσμον, εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν ἦλθεν ἐπιφανές τι διαπραξάμενος αἰώνιον ἑαυτοῦ μνήμην τοῖς ἐπιγινομένοις καταλιπεῖν. ἐφιστὰς δὲ τὴν διάνοιαν ἐπὶ τὰ τῶν ἀρχαίων βασιλέων τε καὶ πολιτικῶν ἀνδρῶν μνημεῖα, ἐξ ὧν εἰς ὀνόματα καὶ δόξας προῆλθον, οὔτε τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου τείχους ἐμακάρισε τὴν Ἀσσυρίαν ἐκείνην γυναῖκα οὔτε τῶν ἐν Μέμφει πυραμίδων τοὺς Αἰγύπτου βασιλεῖς οὔτ᾽ εἴ τις ἄλλη πλούτου καὶ πολυχειρίας ἐπίδειξις ἦν ἀνδρὸς ἡγεμόνος, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα πάντα μικρὰ καὶ ὀλιγοχρόνια καὶ οὐκ ἄξια σπουδῆς ἡγησάμενος ὄψεώς τ᾽ [p. 46] ἀπάτας, οὐκ ἀληθεῖς βίου καὶ πραγμάτων ὠφελείας, ἐξ ὧν μακαρισμοὶ τοῖς κατασκευασαμένοις ἠκολούθουν μόνον, ἐπαίνου δὲ καὶ ζήλου ἄξια τὰ τῆς γνώμης ἔργα ὑπολαβών, ἧς πλεῖστοί τ᾽ ἀπολαύουσι καὶ ἐπὶ μήκιστον χρόνον καρποῦνται τὰς ὠφελείας, πάντων μάλιστα τῶν τοιούτων ἔργων τὴν Ἀμφικτύονος τοῦ Ἕλληνος ἐπίνοιαν ἠγάσθη, ὃς ἀσθενὲς ὁρῶν καὶ ῥᾴδιον ὑπὸ τῶν περιοικούντων βαρβάρων ἐξαναλωθῆναι τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν γένος, εἰς τὴν ἐπ᾽ ἐκείνου κληθεῖσαν Ἀμφικτυονικὴν σύνοδον καὶ πανήγυριν αὐτὸ συνήγαγε, νόμους καταστησάμενος ἔξω τῶν ἰδίων, ὧν ἑκάστη πόλις εἶχε, τοὺς κοινοὺς ἅπασιν, οὓς καλοῦσιν Ἀμφικτυονικούς, ἐξ ὧν φίλοι μὲν ὄντες ἀλλήλοις διετέλουν καὶ τὸ συγγενὲς φυλάττοντες μᾶλλον ἔργοις ἢ λόγοις, λυπηροὶ δὲ τοῖς 1 βαρβάροις καὶ φοβεροί.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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