Plutarch, Amatorius, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, 26

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5 771d ἐνταῦθα μὲν ὁ πατὴρ ἔφη τὸν περὶ Ἔρωτος αὐτοῖς τελευτῆσαι λόγον, τῶν Θεσπιῶν¹ ἐγγὺς οὖσιν· ὀφθῆναι δὲ προσιόντα θᾶττον ἢ βάδην πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἕνα τῶν Πεισίου ἑταίρων Διογένη· τοῦ δὲ Σωκλάρου πρὸς αὐτὸν ἔτι πόρρωθεν εἰπόντος² οὐ 10 πόλεμὸν γʼ ὦ Διόγενες, ἀπαγγέλλων,³ ἐκεῖνον οὐκ εὐφημήσετε φάναι γάμων ὄντων καὶ προάξετε θᾶσσον, ὡς ὑμᾶς τῆς θυσίας περιμενούσης; πάντας μὲν οὖν ἡσθῆναι, τὸν δὲ Ζεύξιππον ἐρέσθαι⁴, εἰ ἔτι χαλεπός ἐστι. πρῶτος μὲν οὖν ἔφη⁵ συνεχώρησε⁶ 15 τῇ Ἰσμηνοδώρᾳ· καὶ νῦν ἑκὼν στέφανον καὶ λευκὸν 771e ἱμάτιον λαβὼν⁷ οἷός ἐστιν ἡγεῖσθαι διʼ ἀγορᾶς πρὸς τὸν θεόν. ἀλλʼ ἴωμεν, ναὶ μὰ Δία τὸν πατέρα εἰπεῖν ἴωμεν, ὅπως ἐπεγγελάσωμεν τἀνδρὶ⁸ καὶ τὸν θεὸν προσκυνήσωμεν· δῆλος γάρ ἐστι χαίρων 20 καὶ παρὼν εὐμενὴς τοῖς πραττομένοις.

Amatorius. Plutarch. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Leipzig. 1892.

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Ἐρωτικός (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. IV. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1892.)

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Of Love. Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. IV. Goodwin, William W., editor; Philips, John, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 26 focus

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Here, as my father told me, ended the discourse concerning Love in the neighborhood of Thespiae; at what time they saw one of Pisias’s friends, by name Diogenes, coming at a good round pace towards them; to whom when Soclarus, while he was yet at a distance, cried out, No tidings of war, Diogenes, I hope? No, no, said he, that ne’er can be at a wedding; and therefore mend your pace, for the nuptial sacrifice stays only for your coming. All the rest of the company were exceeding glad, only Zeuxippus asked whether Pisias were still angry. On the contrary, said Diogenes, as he before opposed the match, so now he was the first to approve what Ismenodora had done; and at the same time, putting on a garland upon his head and throwing a white nuptial robe about his shoulders, he is to march before all the company through the marketplace, to give thanks to the God of Love.

AUTOB.

Well done, by Jupiter, come away, come away then, cried my father, that we may laugh and be merry with our friend, and adore the Deity. For there is no doubt that he is propitiously present with his favor and approbation.

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Ἐρωτικός

1. θεσπιέων BE

2. cf. Leutsch. 2 p. 84

3. cf. Plat. Symp. p. 201e

4. em. W: ἐρᾶσθαι ἔτι E. ὁρᾶσθαι ὅτι B

5. ἔφη (sc. Διογένης) scripsi cum W: ἐν ἡ

6. συνεχώρησε] sc. Πεισίας

7. λαβών] om. E. Fort. λαβὼν omisso corrigendum ἑκὼν in ἔχων

8. *: τῷ ἀνδρὶ

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