Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 6 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians

Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 6 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians, Plutarch; served verbatim

Their youth, as they were instructed and ate in public together, so at night slept in distinct companies in one common chamber, and on no other beds than what were made of reeds, which they had gathered out of the river Eurotas, near the banks of which they grew. This was the only accommodation they had in the summer, but in winter they mingled with the reeds a certain soft and downy thistle, having much more of heat and warmth in it than the other.

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

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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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