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φέρε, ἐὰν δὲ δὴ κατορθώσῃς, τί τὸ θαυμαστὸν ἔσται σοι καὶ περιμάχητον ἀγαθόν, ἢ τίνας ἐξοίσῃ δόξας; καὶ γὰρ τοῦτ᾽ ἐξέτασον. πρῶτον μὲν τῶν φιλτάτων τε καὶ ἀναγκαιοτάτων ὑπάρξει σοι στερέσθαι σωμάτων, μητρὸς ἀθλίας, ᾗ γενέσεως καὶ τροφῆς καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὧν ἔσχεν ἐπὶ σοὶ πόνων οὐ καλὰς ἀμοιβὰς ἀποδίδως: ἔπειτα γαμετῆς σώφρονος, ἣ διὰ τὸν σὸν πόθον ἐν ἐρημίᾳ καὶ χηρείᾳ κάθηται πᾶσαν ἡμέραν καὶ νύκτα τὰς σὰς φυγὰς ὀδυρομένη: πρὸς δὲ τούτοις τέκνων δυεῖν, οὓς ἐχρῆν ἀγαθῶν προγόνων ὄντας ἀπογόνους καρποῦσθαι τὰς ἐκείνων τιμὰς εὐδοξοῦντας ἐν εὐτυχούσῃ τῇ πατρίδι.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol III. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1891. Keyboarding.
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