Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1J.M. Dent, 1961 |
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Page 78
... reason , however , I leave others to determine . To return from whence we have digressed . So seriously did the Lacedæmonian children go about their stealing , that a youth , having stolen a young fox and hid it under his coat ...
... reason , however , I leave others to determine . To return from whence we have digressed . So seriously did the Lacedæmonian children go about their stealing , that a youth , having stolen a young fox and hid it under his coat ...
Page 86
... reason why he forbade them to travel abroad , and go about acquainting themselves with foreign rules of morality , the habits of ill - educated people , and different views of government . Withal he banished from Lacedæmon all strangers ...
... reason why he forbade them to travel abroad , and go about acquainting themselves with foreign rules of morality , the habits of ill - educated people , and different views of government . Withal he banished from Lacedæmon all strangers ...
Page 124
... reason . It is not affection , it is weakness that brings men , unarmed against fortune by reason , into these endless pains and terrors ; and they indeed have not even the present enjoyment of what they dote upon , the possibility of ...
... reason . It is not affection , it is weakness that brings men , unarmed against fortune by reason , into these endless pains and terrors ; and they indeed have not even the present enjoyment of what they dote upon , the possibility of ...
Contents
THE COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS | 56 |
NUMA POMPILIUS | 91 |
THE COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS | 114 |
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