Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 36 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians

Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 36 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians, Plutarch; served verbatim

Their virtuous man, as he was to do no wrong, so likewise was not to suffer any without a due sense and: modest resentment of it ; and therefore the Ephori laid a mulct upon Sciraphidas, because he could so tamely receive the many injuries and affronts that were offered him, — concluding that he who was so insensible of his own interest as not to stand up in a bold and honest vindication of himself from the wrongs and injustice that may be done to his * ^kamSi fikv Sa?wv nf ayaXXerai, ijv napu Qafxv<f> » 'EvTog afiufiTjTov Ku^ltnov ovk kdiXuv [AvTdg 6' k^£(pvyov QavCiTov te?loc-] aamc kKeivrj 'E/i/Serw k^avng Kriiao/iai ov kukcu. Archilochus, Fr. 6 (Bergk). The passage in brackets is omitted by Plutarch. (Q.) VOL. I. 7 good name and honor, would without all doubt be as dull and listless, when an opportunity should invite him to it, in appearing for the defence of the fame and reputation of his country.

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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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