# Ἀίτια Ῥωμαϊκά 17

Plutarch, Ἀίτια Ῥωμαϊκά, Section 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/plutarch/text-5/17

διὰ τί παρὰ τῇ θεῷ ταύτῃ τοῖς μὲν ἰδίοις τέκνοις οὐκ εὔχονται τἀγαθὰ τοῖς δὲ τῶν ἀδελφῶν; πότερον ὅτι φιλάδελφος μέν τις ἡ Ἰνὼ καὶ τὸν ἐκ τῆς ἀδελφῆς ἐτιθηνήσατο, αὐτὴ δὲ περὶ τοὺς ἑαυτῆς παῖδας ἐδυστύχησεν ἢ καὶ ἄλλως ἠθικὸν καὶ καλὸν τὸ ἔθος καὶ πολλὴν παρασκευάζον εὔνοιαν ταῖς οἰκειότησι;

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Plutarch, Ἀίτια Ῥωμαϊκά, ed. Frank Cole Babbitt. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0007.tlg084.local001/.