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Huius uiri mentio subicit ut de septem sapientium moderatione referam. a piscatoribus in Milesia regione euerriculum trahentibus quidam iactum emerat. extracta deinde magni ponderis aurea Delphica mensa orta controuersia est, illis piscium se capturam uendidisse adfirmantibus, hoc fortunam ductus emisse dicente. qua cognitione propter nouitatem rei et magnitudinem pecuniae ad uniuersum ciuitatis eius populum delata placuit Apollinem Delphicum consuli cuinam adiudicari mensa deberet. deus respondit illi esse dandam, qui sapientia ceteros praestaret, his uerbis: τίς σοφίᾳ πρῶτος πάντων; τούτῳ τρίποδ᾽ αὐδῶ. tum Milesii consensu Thaleti mensam dederunt. ille cessit ea Bianti, Bias Pittaco, is protinus alii, deincepsque per omnium vii sapientium orbem ad ultimum ad Solonem peruenit, qui et titulum amplissimae prudentiae et praemium ad ipsum Apollinem transtulit.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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