ει337Εἰ τὸ μέσον κτήσαιο Κορίνθου καὶ Σικυῶνος
if you were to acquire the middle ground between Corinth and Sikyon
When Aesop the mythographer consulted the oracle in regard to wealth the god answered with this pronouncement: "for this is productive land." And an oracle was given by Bakis the oracle-monger: "but when wolves and gray…
Εἰ τὸ μέσον κτήσαιο Κορίνθου καὶ Σικυῶνος· Αἰσώπῳ τῷ μυθογράφῳ χρωμένῳ περὶ πλούτου ὁ θεὸς ἀνεῖλε τὸ λόγιον τοῦτο· εὔφορος γὰρ αὕτη ἡ χώρα. καὶ χρησμὸς ἐδόθη παρὰ Βάκιδος τοῦ…