Plutarch, bust from the museum of Delphi.
Bill copies the translations of Plutarch‘s Moralia faster than even God can read them. I am glad that they are online now. Today’s installments are:
- On Praising Oneself Inoffensively: a common theme for a rhetorician, which Plutarch treats as a moralist. The Greek text at Philip Remacle’s site is here.
- Precepts of Statecraft: advice for a man who dreams of a career as a local politician. The Greek text of this treatise can be found here.
So many Greek texts… Seeing the speedy expansion of their number, I think Bill will soon have to rebaptize his increasingly inaccurately named website “LacusCurtius. Into the Roman World”, and will name it “Trophonius’ Cave. Into the Greek World”.😉
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