Plut. Mor., Stoic Improbabilities 5 — A breviate of a discourse, showing that the Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets

Plut. Mor., Stoic Improbabilities 5 — A breviate of a discourse, showing that the Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets, Plutarch; served verbatim

The fabular relations of the poets are so careful of decorum, that they never leave a Hercules destitute of necessaries; but those still spring, as out of some fountain, as well for him as for his companions. But he that hath received of the Stoics Amalthaea becomes indeed a rich man, but he begs his victuals of other men; he is a king, but resolves syllogisms for hire; he is the only man that hath all things, but yet he pays rent for the house he lives in, and oftentimes buys bread with borrowed money, or else begs it of those that have nothing themselves.

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

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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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