Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... slaves , or foreigners , or flighty per- sons . For what happens nowadays in many cases is highly ridiculous : good slaves are made farmers , or sailors , or merchants , or stewards , or money - lenders ; but if they find a winebibbing ...
... slaves , or foreigners , or flighty per- sons . For what happens nowadays in many cases is highly ridiculous : good slaves are made farmers , or sailors , or merchants , or stewards , or money - lenders ; but if they find a winebibbing ...
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... slave for as much ; " Aristippus answered , " You shall have two slaves then , your son and the slave you buy . " And is it not altogether strange that you accustom your son to take his food in his right hand , and chide him if he " " 1 ...
... slave for as much ; " Aristippus answered , " You shall have two slaves then , your son and the slave you buy . " And is it not altogether strange that you accustom your son to take his food in his right hand , and chide him if he " " 1 ...
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... slaves and informers to shoot at to fill their own 1 Reading Koropopоuvтεç , the excellent emendation of Wyttenbach . 2 From the heathen standpoint of course , not from the Christian . Compare the advice of Cato in Horace's " Satires ...
... slaves and informers to shoot at to fill their own 1 Reading Koropopоuvтεç , the excellent emendation of Wyttenbach . 2 From the heathen standpoint of course , not from the Christian . Compare the advice of Cato in Horace's " Satires ...
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... slaves : viz . , that we ought to worship the gods , honour parents , reverence elders , obey the laws , submit ourselves to rulers , love our friends , be chaste in our relations with women , kind to our children , and not to treat our ...
... slaves : viz . , that we ought to worship the gods , honour parents , reverence elders , obey the laws , submit ourselves to rulers , love our friends , be chaste in our relations with women , kind to our children , and not to treat our ...
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... slaves than the freeborn . For slaves try to shirk and avoid their work , partly because of the pain of blows , partly on account of being reviled . But praise or censure are far more useful than abuse to the freeborn , praise pricking ...
... slaves than the freeborn . For slaves try to shirk and avoid their work , partly because of the pain of blows , partly on account of being reviled . But praise or censure are far more useful than abuse to the freeborn , praise pricking ...
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