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οἶνον δ᾽ οἱ μὲν ἐν Ἡλίου πόλει θεραπεύοντες τὸν θεὸν οὐκ εἰσφέρουσι
τὸ παράπαν εἰς τὸ
ἱερόν, ὡς οὐ προσῆκον ἡμέρας 1 πίνειν, τοῦ κυρίου καὶ βασιλέως
ἐφορῶντος: οἱ δ᾽ ἄλλοι χρῶνται μὲν ὀλίγῳ
δέ. πολλὰς δ᾽ ἀοίνους ἁγνείας ἔχουσιν, ἐν αἷς φιλοσοφοῦντες καὶ
μανθάνοντες καὶ διδάσκοντες τὰ [p. 476] θεῖα διατελοῦσιν. οἱ δὲ
βασιλεῖς καὶ μετρητὸν ἔπινον ἐκ τῶν ἱερῶν γραμμάτων, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος 2 ἱστόρηκεν, ἱερεῖς ὄντες:
ἤρξαντο δὲ πίνειν ἀπὸ Ψαμμητίχου, πρότερον δ᾽ οὐκ ἔπινον οἶνον οὐδ᾽
ἔσπενδον ὡς φίλιον θεοῖς, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς αἷμα τῶν
πολεμησάντων ποτὲ τοῖς θεοῖς, ἐξ ὧν οἴονται πεσόντων καὶ τῇ γῇ
συμμιγέντων ἀμπέλους γενέσθαι: διὸ καὶ τὸ μεθύειν ἔκφρονας ποιεῖν 3 καὶ παραπλῆγας, ἅτε
δὴ τῶν προγόνων τοῦ αἵματος ἐμπιπλαμένους:. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν Εὔδοξος ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῆς περιόδου λέγεσθαί φησιν
οὕτως ὑπὸ τῶν ἱερέων.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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