Plut. Mor., Symposiacs 7.4.2 — Symposiacs

Plut. Mor., Symposiacs 7.4.2 — Symposiacs, Plutarch; served verbatim

First, about the lamps. And his son-in-law Caesernius was of opinion that the ancients abominated all extinction of fire, because of the relation it had to the sacred and eternal flame. Fire, like man, may be destroyed two ways, either when it is violently quenched, or when it naturally decays. The sacred fire was secured against both ways, being always watched and continually supplied; but the common fire they permitted to go out of itself, not forcing or violently extinguishing it, but not supplying it with nourishment, like a useless beast, that they might not feed it to no purpose.

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

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Symposiacs, Plutarch — translated by Thomas Creech (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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