Plut. Mor., Symposiacs 9.4.1 — Symposiacs

Plut. Mor., Symposiacs 9.4.1 — Symposiacs, Plutarch; served verbatim

Question IV. WHICH OF VENUS’S HANDS DIOMEDES WOUNDED. HERMEAS, ZOPYRION, MAXIMUS. HERMEAS would have replied to Zopyrion, but we desired him to hold; and Maximus the rhetorician proposed to him this far-fetched question out of Homer, Which of Venus’s hands Diomedes wounded. And Zopyrion presently asking him again, Of which leg was Philip lame?—Maximus replied, It is a different case, for Demosthenes hath left us no foundation upon which we may build our conjecture. But if you confess your ignorance in this matter, others will show how the poet sufficiently intimates to an understanding man which hand it was. Zopyrion being at a stand, we all, since he made no reply, desired Maximus to tell us.

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

Demosthenes — a life Diomedes — a candidate entry Homer — a life Maximus — a candidate entry Philip — a candidate entry

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