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Λυπηθεὶς δ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ὅτῳ πιστωσάμενος τὴν τοῦ Σαούλου προαίρεσιν Ἰωνάθης οὐκ ἔπεισεν ἐπηρώτα, τίνος ἐξ αὐτοῦ βούλεται τυχεῖν. ὁ δέ ‘οἶδα γάρ, ἔφη, πάντα σε χαρίζεσθαί μοι καὶ παρέχειν ἐθέλοντα: νουμηνία μὲν εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσάν ἐστιν, ἔθος δ᾽ ἔχω δειπνεῖν σὺν τῷ βασιλεῖ καθήμενος: [227] εἰ δή σοι δοκεῖ πορευθεὶς ἔξω τῆς πόλεως ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ λανθάνων διαμενῶ, σὺ δ᾽ ἐπιζητήσαντος αὐτοῦ λέγε πορευθῆναί με εἰς τὴν πατρίδα Βηθλέεμ᾽ ἑορτήν μου τῆς φυλῆς ἀγούσης προστιθεὶς ὅτι σύ μοι συγκεχώρηκας. κἂν μὲν οἷον εἰκὸς καὶ σύνηθές ἐστι λέγειν ἐπὶ φίλοις ἀποδημοῦσιν ‘ἐπ᾽ ἀγαθῷ βεβάδικεν’ εἴπῃ, ἴσθι μηδὲν ὕπουλον παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ εἶναι μηδ᾽ ἐχθρόν: ἂν δ᾽ ὡς ἄλλως ἀποκρίνηται τοῦτ᾽ ἔσται τεκμήριον τῶν κατ᾽ ἐμοῦ βεβουλευμένων. [228] μηνύσεις δέ μοι τὴν διάνοιαν τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς οἴκτῳ τε νέμων τοῦτο καὶ φιλίᾳ, δι᾽ ἣν πίστεις τε παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ λαβεῖν ἠξίωκας αὐτός τε ἐμοὶ δοῦναι δεσπότης ὤν. εἰ δ᾽ εὑρίσκεις τι ἐν ἐμοὶ πονηρόν, αὐτὸς ἄνελε καὶ φθάσον τὸν πατέρα.’

Flavius Josephus. Flavii Iosephi opera. B. Niese. Berlin. Weidmann. 1892.

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