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750a ἵνʼ οὖν μὴ παροξύνοντες ἀλλήλους κατὰ μικρὸν εἰς ὀργὴν προαγάγοιεν, ὥσπερ διαιτητὰς ἑλόμενοι καὶ βραβευτὰς τὸν πατέρα καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ 10 παρεγένοντο· καὶ τῶν ἄλλων φίλων οἷον ἐκ παρασκευῆς τῷ μὲν ὁ Δαφναῖος παρῆν τῷ δʼ ὁ Πρωτογένης ἀλλʼ οὗτος μὲν ἀνέδην ἔλεγε κακῶς τὴν Ἰσμηνοδώραν· ὁ δὲ Δαφναῖος ὦ Ἡράκλεις ἔφη τί οὐκ ἄν τις προσδοκήσειεν, εἰ καὶ Πρωτογένης 15 ἔρωτι πολεμήσων πάρεστιν ᾧ καὶ παιδιὰ¹ πᾶσα καὶ σπουδὴ περὶ Ἔρωτα καὶ διʼ Ἔρωτος², 750b

λήθη μὲν³ λόγων λήθη δὲ πάτρας,

⁴ οὐχ ὡς τῷ Λαΐῳ πέντε μόνον ἡμερῶν⁵ ἀπέχοντι τῆς πατρίδος; βραδὺς γὰρ ὁ ἐκείνου⁶ καὶ χερσαῖος Ἔρως, 20 ὁ δὲ σὸς ἐκ Κιλικίας Ἀθήναζε

λαιψηρὰ κυκλώσας πτερὰ

⁷ διαπόντιος πέτεται⁸, τοὺς καλοὺς ἐφορῶν καὶ συμπλανώμενος. ἀμέλει γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐγεγόνει τοιαύτη τις αἰτία τῷ Πρωτογένει τῆς ἀποδημίας.

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.) — 3 focus

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However, to prevent the growing of any quarrel between them, through long and passionate disputes, they chose for umpires of the controversy my father and those friends that were with him. And beside them, as if they had been chosen on purpose, Daphnaeus pleaded for Pisias, and for Anthemion, Protogenes; who bitterly inveighing against Ismenodora, 0 Hercules, cried Daphnaeus, what may we not expect, when Protogenes bids defiance to love? he that all along has spent as well the serious as sportive hours of his life both in love and for love, without regard either to learning or his country; nor like to Laius, who was but live days’ journey distant from home, — for his was a slow sort of love upon the dry land, — whereas your Cupid, Protogenes,

With nimble wings displayed,

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crossed the seas from Cilicia to Athens, merely to visit and straggle up and down with lovely boys. And indeed, such at first was the true cause of Protogenes’s peregrination.

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Ἐρωτικός

1. X: παιδεία

2. καὶ δι’ Ἐρωτα conieci in Symb.

3. μὲν] δὲ BE

4. Nauck. p. 632

5. fort. ἡμερῶν ὁδὸν

6. Turnebus: ἐκείνων

7. cf. p. 507a

8. πέτεται Athenaeus p. 165a: πέταται

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