Plut. Mor., Roman Questions 22 — Roman Questions

Plut. Mor., Roman Questions 22 — Roman Questions, Plutarch; served verbatim

Question 22. Why are they of opinion that Janus was double-faced, and do describe and paint him so? Solution. Was it because he was a native Greek of Perrhaebia (as they story it), and going down into Italy and cohabiting with the barbarians of the country, changed his language and way of living? Or rather because he persuaded those people of Italy that were savage and lawless to a civil life, in that he converted them to husbandry and formed them into commonwealths?

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

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Roman Questions, Plutarch — translated by Isaac Chauncy (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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