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οὐ τέχνην δέδωκεν: ἄνθρωποι δὲ περιουσίᾳ συνέσεως διὰ τὸ εὐμήχανον ἵππους παρατρέφουσι, κύνας, πέρδικας, λαγωούς 1, κολοιούς τί οὖν γε 2 σεαυτοῦ κατέγνωκας, ἀπιθανώτερος ὢν κολοιοῦ καὶ ἀφωνότερος πέρδικος καὶ κυνὸς ἀγεννέστερος, ὥστ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἀνθρώπου μηδενὸς ὠφελεῖσθαι περιέπων, ψυχαγωγῶν, φυλάττων, προμαχόμενος; οὐχ ὁρᾷς, ὡς πολλὰ μὲν γῆ παρέχει πολλὰ δὲ θάλαττα;
καὶ μὴν Μίκκυλον 3 εἰσεῖδον 4
φησὶν ὁ Κράτης 5
τῶν ἐρίων ξαίνοντα, γυναῖκά τε συγξαίνουσαν,
τὸν λιμὸν φεύγοντας ἐν αἰνῇ δηιοτῆτι 6.
Κλεάνθη δ᾽ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀντίγονος ἠρώτα διὰ χρόνου θεασάμενος ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις; ‘ἀλεῖς ἔτι, ’

1 πέρδικας λαγωοὺς Aldina: πέρδικας fort. rectius

2 ib. γε] σύ γε aut λέγε R

3 Μίκκυλον X: μίκυλλον aut μίκυλον

4 cf. C. Wachsmuthii Sillograph. graecorum reliquae p. 194

5 ib. supplet Cobetus κρατέρ᾽ ἄλγε᾽ ἔχοντα ex Hom. λ 593 cf. Bergk. 2 p. 366

6 ἐν αἰνῇ δηιοτὴτι] cf. Hom. μ 257

Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1893. 5.

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