Plutarch's essay

Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 5)

Name: Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 5)
Author: Plutarch, 46-120?; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Goodwin, William Watson, 1831-1912 [Editor]

作者：Plutarch, 46-120?; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Goodwin, William Watson, 1831-1912 [Editor]
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PLUTARCH’S ESSAYS AND MISCELLANIES
EDITOR’S PREFACE.
WILLIAM W. GOODWIN.
INTRODUCTION.
Another gives an insight into his mystic tendencies,—
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIRST.
WITH THE TRANSLATORS’ NAMES.
A DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
BY SIMON FORD, D.D.
CONCERNING THE CURE OF ANGER.
BY WILLIAM DILLINGHAM, D.D.
OF BASHFULNESS.
BY THOMAS HOY, FELLOW OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE IN OXFORD.
THAT VIRTUE MAY BE TAUGHT.
BY MR. PATRICK, OF THE CHARTERHOUSE.
THE ACCOUNT OF THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE LACEDAEMONIANS.
BY MR. JOHN PULLEYN, OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE.
CONCERNING MUSIC.
BY JOHN PHILIPS, GENT.
OF THE TRANQUILLITY OF THE MIND.
BY MATTHEW MORGAN, A.M., OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE IN OXFORD.
OF SUPERSTITION, OR INDISCREET DEVOTION.
BY WILLIAM BAXTER, GENT.
BY E. HINTON, OF WITNEY IN OXFORDSHIRE.
RULES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.
BY MATTHEW POOLE, D.D., OF NORTHAMPTON.
HOW A MAN MAY RECEIVE ADVANTAGE AND PROFIT FROM HIS ENEMIES.
BY JOHN HARTCLIFFE, FELLOW OF KING’S COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE.
CONSOLATION TO APOLLONIUS.
BY MATTHEW MORGAN, A.M., OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE IN OXFORD.
CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF WOMEN.
BY ISAAC CHAUNCY, OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON.
LACONIC APOPHTHEGMS; OR, REMARKABLE SAYINGS OF THE SPARTANS.
BY THOMAS CREECH, A.M., OF WADHAM COLLEGE IN OXFORD.
OF HEARING.
BY THOMAS HOY, FELLOW OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE IN OXFORD.
BY W. G.
CONCERNING THE FORTUNE OR VIRTUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
BY JOHN PHILIPS, GENT.
INDEX
PLUTARCH’S MORALS.
VOL. I.
PLUTARCH’S MORALS.
A DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
CONCERNING THE CURE OF ANGER.
A DIALOGUE.
SYLLA, FUNDANUS.
O wonder! how much gentler is he grown![16]
Thou’rt wise too late, thou shouldst have kept at home.[17]
This said, a sable cloud of grief covered him o’er;[18]
First broken by his hands.[20]
And so Agamemnon, ascribing to Ate the taking away of Briseis, adds:—
Than that supper nought can more unpleasant be,[24]
Purge bitter choler with a bitter pill,[26]
OF BASHFULNESS.
With trembling stooped more than his lord desired,[31]
Thy tongue, thy flattering tongue prevailed.[32]
Welcome a friend, but never call thy foe.[34]
My friend, no silver white have I in all my caves,—
I know the dreadful consequence, and fear,[40]
THAT VIRTUE MAY BE TAUGHT.
THE ACCOUNT OF THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE LACEDAEMONIANS.[46]
To which the chorus, consisting of young men only, thus answers:—
That the love of money should be the ruin of Sparta,—
CONCERNING MUSIC.[51]
ONESICRATES, SOTERICHUS, LYSIAS.
Song and the merry dance, the joy of feasts.[69]
OF THE TRANQUILLITY OF THE MIND.
PLUTARCH WISHETH ALL HEALTH TO HIS PACCIUS.
Lie still, poor wretch, and keep thy bed.[70]
I live an idle burden to the ground.[74]
Likewise,—
Who of the products of the earth do eat,[79]
Jove in a deep affliction did him plunge.[81]
Observe this likewise:—
I knew that I had begotten a mortal.
Which conquering Greece could never force away.[89]
Fate shall release me when I please myself;[91]
19. But many are shocked at this saying of Menander,—
No man can tell what will himself befall,—
OF SUPERSTITION OR INDISCREET DEVOTION.
O that our Greeks should found such barbarous rites,[97]
Grant me, great Jove, to throw down Priam’s roof.[102]
Mad, raving, tearing, foaming Deity,—
Six daughters, and six sons full in their prime;[106]
Would God I had his liver ’twixt my teeth;[107]
THE APOPHTHEGMS OR REMARKABLE SAYINGS OF KINGS AND GREAT COMMANDERS.
PLUTARCH TO TRAJAN THE EMPEROR WISHETH PROSPERITY.
Such humor as distils from blessed Gods.[110]
Aeschylus wrote these verses on Amphiaraus:—
ROMAN APOPHTHEGMS.
PLUTARCH’S RULES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.
A DIALOGUE.
MOSCHIO, ZEUXIPPUS.
What in his house is well or ill-designed,[117]
In silence,—for the Gods have struck them dumb;[121]
Cast down his eyes and fell to junketing,—
HOW A MAN MAY RECEIVE ADVANTAGE AND PROFIT FROM HIS ENEMIES.
Wilt thou heal others, thou thyself being full of sores?[128]
CONSOLATION TO APOLLONIUS.
Euripides hath said wisely to this purpose:—
For no man lives who always happy is.[137]
And, by Jove, you should not hinder what ought to be done,—
Those things which in their nature ought to be.[138]
Which no man can avoid with all his care.[140]
And also:—
And in another place:—
And he who spoke thus very nicely imitated him:—
And it is great to speak this sentence with courage:—
Where is the slave who never fears to die?[151]
Or this:—
Pindar hath it so:—
Sophocles so:—
And Euripides so:—
And in many places he saith thus,—
She met Death’s brother, Sleep.—
And again,—
Twin brothers, Sleep and Death,—
Let no man fear what doth his labors end;—
I would have changed into these words,—
This Laconic too is very noble:—
And again:—
And we may not incongruously add these:—
And thus likewise:—
The things we do possess are not our own;[167]
And thus Pindar:—
Thus the tragedian Aeschylus:—
Euripides thus:—
In another place so:—
The Gods do hurt thee not, but thou thyself,—
For nought that cometh by necessity is hard,[172]
The thread which at his birth for him was spun.[174]
CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF WOMEN.
EXAMPLE 1. _Of the Trojan Women._
EXAMPLE 2. _Of the Phocian Women._
EXAMPLE 3. _Of the Women of Chios._
EXAMPLE 4. _Of the Argive Women._
EXAMPLE 5. _Of the Persian Women._
EXAMPLE 6. _Of the Celtic Women._
EXAMPLE 7. _Of the Melian Women._
EXAMPLE 8. _Of the Tyrrhene Women._
EXAMPLE 9. _Of the Lycian Women._
EXAMPLE 10. _Of the Women of Salmantica._
EXAMPLE 11. _Of the Women of Milesia._
EXAMPLE 12. _Of the Women of Cios._
EXAMPLE 13. _Of the Phocian Women._
EXAMPLE 14. _Valeria and Cloelia._
EXAMPLE 15. _Of Micca and Megisto._
EXAMPLE 16. _Of Pieria._
EXAMPLE 17. _Of Polycrita._
EXAMPLE 18. _Of Lampsace._
EXAMPLE 19. _Aretaphila._
EXAMPLE 20. _Camma._
EXAMPLE 21. _Stratonica._
EXAMPLE 22. _Chiomara._
EXAMPLE 23. _Of the Woman of Pergamus._
EXAMPLE 24. _Timoclea._
EXAMPLE 25. _Eryxo._
EXAMPLE 26. _Xenocrita._
EXAMPLE 27. _The Wife of Pythes._
LACONIC APOPHTHEGMS; OR REMARKABLE SAYINGS OF THE SPARTANS.
AGESILAUS _to the_ EPHORS, _Greeting._
THE REMARKABLE SPEECHES OF SOME OBSCURE MEN AMONGST THE SPARTANS.
OF HEARING.
Expect much fraud, and many a time be caught,—
And, as Menelaus says of Ulysses:—
As when the fig-tree’s juice curdles and binds white milk,[192]
Both a good king, and far renowned in war;[200]
And that other of Demosthenes,—
Death is the certain end of all mankind.[203]
To whom Archelaus not unwittily reparteed,—
With spears, and swords, and mighty stones.[208]
Such stream as issues from a wounded God.[209]
END OF VOL. I.
FOOT-NOTES:
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.