Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 15 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians

Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 15 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians, Plutarch; served verbatim

At all their public festivals these songs were a great part of their entertainment, where there were three companies of singers, representing the three several ages of nature. The old men made up the first chorus, whose business was to present what they had been after this manner : — That active courage youthful blood contains Did once with equal vigor warm our veins. To which the chorus, consisting of young men only, thus answers : — Valiant and bold we are, let who will try : Who dare accept our challenge soon shall die. * § 18 of the original is included in the paraphrase with § 3. CG.) The third, which Avere of young children, replied to them in this manner : — Those seeds which Nature in our breast did sow Shall soon to generous fruits of virtue grow ; Then all those valiant deeds which you relate We will excel, and scorn to imitate.*

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The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians, Plutarch — translated by John Pulleyn (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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