Plutarch’s Essays and Miscellanies, Volume 2

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Author

Plutarch, 46-120?

Title

Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 5) : Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"

Original Publication

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1898, copyright 1905, pubdate 1911.

Credits

Wouter Franssen, Stephen Rowland, Brian Wilcox, The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature

Subject

Ethics

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78147

Release Date

March 8, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Plutarch’s Essays And Miscellanies — Comprising all his Works Collected under the Title of “Morals” · Translated from the Greek by Several Hands Corrected and Revised by WILLIAM W. GOODWIN, Ph.D., Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University In Five Volumes · Volume Two
2. 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. WITH THE TRANSLATORS’ NAMES.
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.THE BANQUET OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN.
5. 5.HOW A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO HEAR POEMS.
6. 6.OF ENVY AND HATRED.
7. 7.HOW TO KNOW A FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND.
8. 8.THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE PLEASURABLY ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE OF EPICURUS. PLUTARCH, ZEUXIPPUS, THEON, ARISTODEMUS.
9. 9.ROMAN QUESTIONS.
10. 10.GREEK QUESTIONS.
11. 11.OF THE LOVE OF WEALTH.
12. 12.HOW A MAN MAY INOFFENSIVELY PRAISE HIMSELF WITHOUT BEING LIABLE TO ENVY.
13. 13.CONCERNING THE PROCREATION OF THE SOUL AS DISCOURSED IN TIMAEUS. 187
14. 14.THAT A PHILOSOPHER OUGHT CHIEFLY TO CONVERSE WITH GREAT MEN. 200
15. 15.A DISCOURSE CONCERNING SOCRATES’S DAEMON.
16. 16.OF CURIOSITY, OR AN OVER-BUSY INQUISITIVENESS INTO THINGS IMPERTINENT.
17. 17.HOW A MAN MAY BE SENSIBLE OF HIS PROGRESS IN VIRTUE.
18. 18.OF FORTUNE.
19. 19.OF VIRTUE AND VICE.
20. 20.CONJUGAL PRECEPTS. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.INDEX.

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