Plut. Mor., Apophthegms of Kings 11 — The Apopthegms or Remarkable Sayings of Kings and Great Commanders

Plut. Mor., Apophthegms of Kings 11 — The Apopthegms or Remarkable Sayings of Kings and Great Commanders, Plutarch; served verbatim

MEMNON. Memnon, one of King Darius’s generals against Alexander, when a mercenary soldier excessively and impudently reviled Alexander, struck him with his spear, adding, I pay you to fight against Alexander, not to reproach him.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass

Alexander — a candidate entry Darius — a life

The Apopthegms or Remarkable Sayings of Kings and Great Commanders, Plutarch — translated by Edward Hinton (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
Apparatus shelf + pinned Perseus TEI — Plutarch's Morals (the Moralia), ed. William W. Goodwin, five volumes · 'Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin, Ph. D.', with an introduction by R. W. Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874 (five volumes; a minority of the TEI transcriptions were keyed from the same publisher's 1878 reprint)
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