Selected Essays

Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. I.

Name: Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. I.
Author: Plutarch, 46-120?; Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George), 1859-1946 [Translator]

作者：Plutarch, 46-120?; Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George), 1859-1946 [Translator]
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字数：465,707　来源：Project Gutenberg

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Selected Essays of Plutarch
SELECTED ESSAYS OF PLUTARCH
TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION
BY
T. G. TUCKER
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
Dinner-Party of the Seven Sages 27
On Old Men in Public Life 65
Advice to Married Couples 96
Concerning Busybodies 113
On Garrulousness 130
On the Student at Lectures 157
On Moral Ignorance in High Places 180
Fawner and Friend 187
On Bringing up a Boy 241
Notes on Persons and Places 267
Appendix: Notes on the Greek Text 295
DINNER-PARTY OF THE SEVEN SAGES
AMASIS, KING OF EGYPT, TO BIAS, WISEST OF THE GREEKS
ON OLD MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE
Well, but (it may be asked) what of the soldier in the comedy with his
Homer’s
When the king of kings prayed to the gods
ADVICE TO MARRIED COUPLES
THE RULES:
40. There appears to be a truth in Hermione’s plea: [Sidenote: F]
CONCERNING BUSYBODIES
As Cleon in the comedy had
As applied to the busybody, the words
ON GARRULOUSNESS
A. _Is it in ear or heart that thou art stung?_
B. _Why seek thus to define where lies my pain?_
A. _’Tis the doer grieves thine heart, I but thine ears._
Now if it were asked
ON THE STUDENT AT LECTURES
MY DEAR NICANDER, [Sidenote: 37 C]
Euripides says that the wound of Telephus was
ON MORAL IGNORANCE IN HIGH PLACES
By whom, then, is the ruler to be ruled? By the
MY DEAR ANTIOCHUS PHILOPAPPUS, [Sidenote: 48 E]
ON BRINGING UP A BOY[55]
NOTES ON PERSONS AND PLACES
7 B ἕως ἔτι μέμνημαι τῆς παιδείας. Rather ... (ταύτης) τῆς παιδείας.
8 B καὶ ἀπὸ πηγῆς τὴν ἐπιστήμην τηρεῖν συμβέβηκεν. Read ἀπὸ πείνης ...
152 A εἰ μὴ μόνος εἴη φρόνιμος. Probably εἰ ἐμμόνως εἴη ...
158 D δεινὸν μὲν οὖν ... καὶ τὸ γεωργίας αὐτῇ. The sense requires αὐτῆς.
160 F ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον οἷ προσέμελλε. Read προσέκελλε.
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