Ion of Chios
This is the beginning of my account: all things are three, and there is nothing more or fewer than these three things. Of each one the excellence is threefold: intelligence and power and fortune. [36 B 1] – Harpocration, Lexicon, s.v. Ion
Ion the poet, in the work he wrote without metre and in prose, says that fortune, although a thing most dissimilar to wisdom, produces very similar results [B3]: both will aggrandize States, adorn men and bring glory and power and dominion. – Plutarch, On the Fortune of the Romans 316E
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