Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 28 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians

Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 28 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians, Plutarch; served verbatim

Besides, it was a great part of that honor they paid their Gods, of whatever sex they were, to adorn them with military weapons and armor, partly out of superstition and an extraordinary reverence they had for the virtue of fortitude, which they preferred to all others, and w^hich they looked upon as an immediate gift of the Gods, as being the greatest lovers and patrons of those who were endued with it ; and partly to encourage every one to address his devotions to them for it ; insomuch as Venus herself, w^ho in other nations was generally represented naked, had her armor too, as well as her particular altars and worshippers.

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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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