Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 9 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians

Plut. Mor., Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians 9 — The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians, Plutarch; served verbatim

Besides, when any was surprised in the commission of some notorious offence, he was presently sentenced to walk round a certain altar in the city, and publicly to shame himself by singing an ingenious satire, composed by himself, upon the crime and folly he had been guilty of, that so the punishment might be inflicted by the same hand which had contracted the guilt.

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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