Plut. Mor., Stoic Improbabilities 2 — A breviate of a discourse, showing that the Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets

Plut. Mor., Stoic Improbabilities 2 — A breviate of a discourse, showing that the Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets, Plutarch; served verbatim

Euripides’s Iolaus of a feeble, superannuated old man, by means of a certain prayer, became on a sudden youthful and strong for battle; but the Stoics’ wise man was yesterday most detestable and the worst of villains, but today is changed on a sudden into a state of virtue, and is become of a wrinkled, pale fellow, and, as Aeschylus speaks, Of an old sickly wretch with stitch in’s back, Distent with rending pains as on a rack, a gallant, god-like, and beauteous person.

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

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass

Aeschylus — a life

A breviate of a discourse, showing that the Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets, 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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