Plut. Mor., Symposiacs 9.14.5 — Symposiacs

Plut. Mor., Symposiacs 9.14.5 — Symposiacs, Plutarch; served verbatim

Then Menephylus the Peripatetic subjoined: The Delphians’ opinion hath indeed somewhat of probability in it; but Plato is absurd in committing the eternal and divine revolutions not to the Muses but to the Sirens, Daemons that neither love nor are benevolent to mankind, wholly passing by the Muses, or calling them by the names of the Fates, the daughters of Necessity. For Necessity is averse to the Muses; but Persuasion being more agreeable and better acquainted with them, in my opinion, than the grace of Empedocles, Intolerable Necessity abhors.

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

Empedocles — a candidate entry Plato — a life

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