Plutarch, Amatorius, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, 7

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λέγω τοίνυν ὁ Πεισίας ἔφη προκηρύξας ἐμοῦ· γʼ ἕνεκα πάσαις γυναιξὶν ἂν¹ ἐραστήν, ὅτι τῆς γυναικὸς ὁ πλοῦτός ἐστι φυλακτέος τῷ νεανίσκῳ, μὴ συμμίξαντες αὐτὸν ὄγκῳ καὶ βάρει τοσούτῳ λάθωμεν² 5 ὥσπερ ἐν χαλκῷ κασσίτερον ἀφανίσαντες μέγα γὰρ ἂν ἐλαφρᾷ καὶ λιτῇ γυναικὶ μειρακίου 752f συνελθὸντος εἰς ταὐτὸν ἡ κρᾶσις οἴνου δίκην ἐπικρατήσῃ· ταύτην δʼ ὁρῶμεν ἄρχειν καὶ κρατεῖν δοκοῦσαν³ οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἀπορρίψασα δόξας καὶ γένη τηλικαῦτα 10 καὶ πλούτους ἐμνᾶτο μειράκιον ἐκ χλαμύδος, ἔτι παιδαγωγεῖσθαι δεόμενον. ὅθεν οἱ νοῦν ἔχοντες αὐτοὶ προΐενται καὶ περικόπτουσιν ὥσπερ ὠκύπτερα τῶν γυναικῶν τὰ περιττὰ⁴ χρήματα, τρυφὰς ἐμποιοῦντα καὶ χαυνότητας ἀβεβαίους⁵ καὶ κενάς⁶, ὑφʼ ὧν 15 753a ἐπαιρόμεναι πολλάκις ἀποπέτονται · κἂν μένωσι⁷, χρυσαῖς ὥσπερ ἐν Αἰθιοπίᾳ πέδαις δεδέσθαι βέλτιον ἢ πλούτῳ γυναικός.

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.) — 7 focus

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To this Pisias replied: I am willing enough that every woman should have her lover; but withal, it very much concerns Baccho to have a care how he entangles himself in Ismenodora’s wealth; lest, while we match him with so much grandeur and magnificence, we consume him to nothing, like tin among brass. For I must tell you, it would be a hard matter for so young a stripling as he is, though he should marry a plain and ordinary woman, to keep the upper hand, like wine mixed with water. But we see her already design superiority and command; else why should she refuse so many suitors of great wealth and noble extraction that court her daily, to woo herself a mere boy, that has but newly assumed the robes of manhood and is more fit to go to school than to marry. And therefore those husbands that are wise, without any admonition, out of their own foresight, clip their wives’ wings themselves; that is, they prune away their riches, that prompt them to luxury and vanity, and render them inconstant and foolish. For many times, by the help of these wings, they soar out of their husbands’ reach and fly quite away; or if they stay at home, better it were for a man to be chained with fetters of gold, as they chain their prisoners in Ethiopia, than to be tied to the riches of a wife.

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Ἐρωτικός

1. ἂν quid lateat incertum. Fort. αὐτὸν

2. em. Herwerdenus: λάθοιμεν

3. δοκοῦσαν] ποθοῦσαν Emperius. Malim ἀσκοῦσαν

4. περιττὰ Salmasius: περὶ τὰ

5. em. X: ἐκβεβαίους

6. καὶ κενὰς Iacobius (ex Clem. Alex. p. 288 Pott.): καὶ κελίους

7. μὲν ὦσι BE

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