Plut. Mor., The E at Delphi 16 — Of the Word EI Engraven Over the Gate of Apollo's Temple at Delphi

Plut. Mor., The E at Delphi 16 — Of the Word EI Engraven Over the Gate of Apollo's Temple at Delphi, Plutarch; served verbatim

After what I have spoken to you, I said, Yet one short word to those about Nicander, I’ll sing to men of skill. For on the sixth day of the new moon, when you introduce the Pythia into the Prytaneum, the first of the three lots tends with you towards five, casting neither three, nor two, one to another. For is not this so? It is so, said Nicander; but the cause is not to be told to others. Well then, said I smiling, till such time as the God admits us, being consecrated, to know the truth, this also shall be added to those things that have been spoken concerning the quinary. This end, as I remember, had the discourse of the arithmetical and mathematical encomiums of E.

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

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Of the Word EI Engraven Over the Gate of Apollo's Temple at Delphi, Plutarch — translated by R. Kippax (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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