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σκόπει ποίας τινάς: μητροκτόνος κεκλήσῃ καὶ παιδοφόνος καὶ γυναικὸς ἀλιτήριος καὶ πατρίδος ἀλάστωρ, καὶ οὔτε θυσιῶν οὔτε σπονδῶν οὔθ᾽ ἑστίας, ὅποι ποτ᾽ [p. 165] ἂν ἀφίκῃ, κοινωνεῖν ἐθελήσει σοι τῶν εὐσεβῶν καὶ δικαίων οὐθείς, αὐτοῖς τ᾽ οὐκ ἔσῃ τίμιος, οἷς εὔνοιαν ἐνδεικνύμενος ταῦτα δρᾷς, ἀλλὰ καρπωσάμενοί τινα ἕκαστος τούτων ἐκ τῶν σῶν ἀσεβημάτων ὠφέλειαν μισήσουσι τὴν αὐθάδειαν τοῦ τρόπου. [4] ἐῶ γὰρ λέγειν, ὅτι χωρὶς τοῦ μίσους, ὃ παρὰ τῶν ἐπιεικεστάτων ἕξεις, καὶ φθόνος ἀπαντήσεται πολὺς ἐκ τῶν ἴσων καὶ φόβος ἐκ τῶν ἡσσόνων καὶ δι᾽ ἄμφω ταῦτ᾽ ἐπιβουλαὶ καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ χαλεπά, ὅσα εἰκὸς συμπεσεῖν ἀνδρὶ ἐρήμῳ φίλων καὶ ἐν ξένῃ ὄντι γῇ. τὰς γὰρ δὴ παρὰ θεῶν τε καὶ δαιμόνων ἐπιπεμπομένας τοῖς ἀνόσια καὶ δεινὰ διαπραξαμένοις ἐρινύας ἐῶ, ὑφ᾽ ὧν αἰκιζόμενοι ψυχάς τε καὶ σώματα κακοὺς μὲν διαντλοῦσι βίους, [5]
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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