Plutarch's Essay

Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies, Vol. 4 (of 5)

Name: Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies, Vol. 4 (of 5)
Author: Plutarch, 46-120?; Goodwin, William Watson, 1831-1912 [Editor]

作者：Plutarch, 46-120?; Goodwin, William Watson, 1831-1912 [Editor]
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字数：889,257　来源：Project Gutenberg

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOURTH.
WITH THE TRANSLATORS’ NAMES.
WHY THE ORACLES CEASE TO GIVE ANSWERS.
BY ROBERT MIDGLEY, M.D., AND COLL. MED. LOND. CAND.
BY WILLIAM BAXTER, PHILALETHES.
CONCERNING SUCH WHOM GOD IS SLOW TO PUNISH.
BY JOHN PHILIPS, GENT.
OF NATURAL AFFECTION TOWARDS ONE’S OFFSPRING.
BY R. BROWN, M.L.
CONCERNING THE FORTUNE OF THE ROMANS.
BY JOHN OSWALD.
OF GARRULITY, OR TALKATIVENESS.
BY JOHN PHILIPS, GENT.
OF LOVE.
BY THE SAME HAND.
FIVE TRAGICAL HISTORIES OF LOVE.
BY SIR A. I.
A DISCOURSE TO AN UNLEARNED PRINCE.
BY MR. J. KERSEY
OF HERODOTUS’S MALICE.
BY A. G., GENT.
OF COMMON CONCEPTIONS, AGAINST THE STOICS.
BY S. WHITE, M.D.
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE STOICS.
BY E. SMITH, M.A.
OF THE WORD _ΕΙ_ ENGRAVEN OVER THE GATE OF APOLLO’S TEMPLE AT DELPHI.
BY R. KIPPAX, M.A.
WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO RENDER A MAN UNHAPPY.
BY S. WHITE, M.D.
WHETHER THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL OR DISEASES OF THE BODY ARE WORSE.
BY THE SAME HAND.
INDEX
PLUTARCH’S MORALS.
VOL. IV.
PLUTARCH’S MORALS.
WHY THE ORACLES CEASE TO GIVE ANSWERS.
A debt is due me neither new nor small,[2]
Than wandering spirits clothed in finest air,[8]
Are our kind guardians, walking here their rounds,[9]
The well-fixed seat of all things;[10]
Jove, the beginning, middle, source of all;[12]
OF ISIS AND OSIRIS, OR OF THE ANCIENT RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF EGYPT.
Like smoke they flew away with swift-paced Fate;[19]
Givers of wealth, this royal gift they have.[21]
As many bonds thrice told, and infinite.[22]
When first the mounting sun the Lion meets.[23]
Discord be damned from Gods and human race,[26]
Supremest Jove, and mighty Counsellor,[27]
Through solitary air.[33]
CONCERNING SUCH WHOM GOD IS SLOW TO PUNISH.
PATROCLEAS, PLUTARCH, TIMON, OLYMPICUS.
OF NATURAL AFFECTION TOWARDS ONE’S OFFSPRING.
For fatal things in various shapes do walk.[54]
CONCERNING THE FORTUNE OF THE ROMANS.
A martial host, ghastly with bloody arms,[55]
And heaped the camp with mountains of the dead,[60]
OF GARRULITY, OR TALKATIVENESS.
9. Ino therefore, in Euripides, frankly extolling herself, says:
E’en while he speaks, his head rolls in the dust.[75]
OF LOVE.
FLAVIANUS AND AUTOBULUS, SONS OF PLUTARCH.
Who with the trees they cherish live and die?—
Slumbering on a girl’s soft cheek.[98]
Surely some God within this house resides.[102]
With fetters bound, but not of brass,[105]
Fallacious charming dreams about it fly;—
When mortals here his honored name invoke;[108]
With sea-green water all encompassed round,[110]
FIVE TRAGICAL HISTORIES OF LOVE.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
A DISCOURSE TO AN UNLEARNED PRINCE
Who doth like God most righteous laws dispense.[116]
The word’s no sooner said, but th’ act is done.[118]
The word’s no sooner said,—
OF HERODOTUS’S MALICE.
OF COMMON CONCEPTIONS, AGAINST THE STOICS.
LAMPRIAS, DIADUMENUS.
Lies, fawning speeches, and deceitful manners,[178]
What God those seeds of strife ’twixt them did sow?[180]
With’s hand unlocking wealth’s sweet treasury.[182]
Who all desired to lie with her;[183]
29. Thus casting moral philosophy into these matters, in which all is
A mazy whirl, with nothing sound, and all perplexed,[185]
Jove is of all beginning, midst, and end,[186]
Both Gods immortal, and earth-dwelling men;[189]
This saying is more impious than the first.[191]
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE STOICS.
8. Against him, who said,
Give not thy judgment till both sides are heard,[193]
Wretch, thy own strength will thee undo,[194]
From poverty to fly;—
Work hard, O God-born Perses,[197]
Jove’s purposes were ripening,[200]
OF THE WORD _ΕΙ_ ENGRAVEN OVER THE GATE OF APOLLO’S TEMPLE AT DELPHI.
AMMONIUS, LAMPRIAS, PLUTARCH, THEON, EUSTROPHUS, NICANDER.
What things now are, shall be, or e’er have been.[206]
Of Apollo also Pindar not unpleasantly sung, that he
WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO RENDER A MAN UNHAPPY.[213]
That to proud Ilium’s siege he might not go,[214]
WHETHER THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL OR DISEASE OF THE BODY ARE WORSE.
Lie still at ease, poor wretch, keep in thy bed,[217]
END OF VOL. IV.
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX.
A.
Archidamus, i. 4, 74, 218, 404; ii. 379 _et seq._
Atheism and superstition compared, i. 168 _et seq._
Autobulus, v. 156 _et seq._
B.
C.
Caphisias, ii. 379 _et seq._
D.
Diogenianus, iii. 71, 73, _et seq._
E.
F.
G.
Gryllus, v. 218 _et seq._
H.
History of music, i. 104 _et seq._
Horus, son of Osiris, iv. 80, 114 _et seq._
I.
J.
L.
Light, of reflected, iii. 168, 169; v. 236 _et seq._
M.
Mirrors, causes and reasons of, iii. 169; v. 236 _et seq._
N.
O.
P.
Pisias, of love, iv. 270 _et seq._
Q.
R.
S.
T.
U.
V.
Vision, doctrine of, iii. 168; v. 236 _et seq._
W.
X.
Y.
Z.