Plut. Mor., Against Epicurus's Pleasure 24 — That it is Not Possible to Live Pleasurably According to the Doctrine of Epicurus

Plut. Mor., Against Epicurus's Pleasure 24 — That it is Not Possible to Live Pleasurably According to the Doctrine of Epicurus, Plutarch; served verbatim

But (said he, looking upon me) I should be impertinent, should I say any thing upon this subject, when we have heard you but now discourse so fully against those that would persuade us that Epicurus’s doctrine about the soul renders men more disposed and better pleased to die than Plato’s doth. Zeuxippus therefore subjoined and said: And must our present debate be left then unfinished because of that? Or shall we be afraid to oppose that divine oracle to Epicurus? No, by no means, I said; and Empedocles tells us that What’s very good claims to be heard twice. Therefore we must apply ourselves again to Theon; for I think he was present at our former discourse; and moreover, he is a young man, and needs not fear being charged by these young gentlemen with having a bad memory.

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

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That it is Not Possible to Live Pleasurably According to the Doctrine of Epicurus, Plutarch — translated by William Baxter (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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