Plut. Mor., Craft of Water and Land Animals 37 — Which are the most crafty, water-animals or those creatures that breed upon the land?

Plut. Mor., Craft of Water and Land Animals 37 — Which are the most crafty, water-animals or those creatures that breed upon the land?, Plutarch; served verbatim

ARISTOTIMUS. Now, gentlemen, it lies on your part that are judges, to pronounce sentence. SOCLARUS. Assuredly then, for our parts, we shall give the same judgment in this, as Sophocles did in another case: Discourse upon discording arguments Is then determined best, when what was said Is duly weighed and stated on both sides. For thus comparing what you have both discoursed one against another, it will be found that you have acquitted yourselves on both sides like true champions against those that would deprive brute animals of sense and understanding.

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

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Which are the most crafty, water-animals or those creatures that breed upon the land?, Plutarch — translated by John Philips> (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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