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καὶ μὴν ἐάνπερ ὁ δυσωπῶν ἔνδοξος καὶ δυνατὸς （ οἳ δὴ μάλιστα
δυσπαραίτητοι καὶ δυσαπότριπτοι 1 περὶ τὰς κρίσεις καὶ τὰς χειροτονίας
ἐντυγχάνοντὲς εἰσιν）, ὃ μὲν ἔπραξεν ὁ Κάτων νέος ὢν
ἔτι πρὸς Κάτλον,
οὐκ ἄν τινι φανείη ῥᾴδιον ἴσως οὐδ᾽
ἀναγκαῖον. ὁ γὰρ Κάτλος ἦν μὲν ἐν ἀξιώματι τῶν Ῥωμαίων μεγίστῳ καὶ
τότε τὴν τιμητικὴν ἀρχὴν εἶχεν ἀνέβη δὲ πρὸς τὸν Κάτωνα τεταγμένον
ἐπὶ τοῦ δημοσίου ταμιείου παραιτησόμενός τινα τῶν [p. 383]
ἐζημιωμένων ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ, καὶ λιπαρὴς ἐγίγνετο ταῖς δεήσεσι προσβιαζόμενος:
ἄχρι οὗ δυσανασχετήσας ἐκεῖνος ‘αἰσχρόν ἐστιν’ ἔφη ‘Κάτλε, σὲ
τὸν τιμητὴν ἀπαλλαγῆναι μὴ βουλόμενον ἐντεῦθεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐμῶν
ὑπηρετῶν ἕλκεσθαι:’ καὶ ὁ Κάτλος
αἰσχυνθείς, πρὸς ὀργὴν ἀπῆλθε. σκόπει δὲ μὴ τὸ τοῦ Ἀγησιλάου καὶ
τὸ τοῦ
Θεμιστοκλέους ἐπιεικέστερόν ἐστι, καὶ μετριώτερον. ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ἀγησίλαος
ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς κελευόμενος κρῖναί τινα δίκην παρὰ τὸν νόμον, ‘ἀλλ᾽
ὑπὸ σοῦ:’ ἔφη ‘πάτερ, πείθεσθαι τοῖς
νόμοις ἐδιδασκόμην ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς: διὸ καὶ νῦν σοι πείθομαι μηδὲν ποιεῖν 2
παράνομον’ ὁ δὲ Θεμιστοκλῆς πρὸς τὸν Σιμωνίδην ἀξιοῦντά τι τῶν μὴ
δικαίων ‘οὔτ᾽ ἂν σὺ ποιητὴς ἀγαθὸς εἴης’ ἔφη ‘παρὰ μέλος:
ᾁδων, οὔτ᾽ ἂν ἐγὼ χρηστὸς ἄρχων παρὰ
νόμον κρίνων.’
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1891. 3.
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