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λέγεται δὲ τὴν Σισιμίθρου
πολιορκῶν πέτραν ἄβατον οὖσαν καὶ ἀπότομον 1 ἀθυμούντων τῶν στρατιωτῶν
ἐρωτῆσαι τὸν Ὀξυάρτην ποῖός τις αὐτὸς εἴη τὴν ψυχὴν ὁ Σισιμίθρης.
φήσαντος δὲ τοῦ Ὀξυάρτου δειλότατον ἀνθρώπων, ‘λέγεις σύ γε,’ φάναι, ‘τὴν [p. 390] πέτραν
ἁλώσιμον ἡμῖν εἶναι τὸ γὰρ ἄρχον αὐτῆς οὐκ ὀχυρόν ἐστι.’
1 ἀπότομον Coraës' correction of the MSS. ἀπρόσβατον, for which Bekker reads ἀπρόσμαχον, after Schaefer. Sintenis2 suggests ἀπότομον καὶ ἀπρόσβατον.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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