Plutarch’s Essays and Miscellanies, Volume 5

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Author

Plutarch, 46-120?

Title

Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 5 (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. 78000

Release Date

February 21, 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 Five
2. 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIFTH. WITH THE TRANSLATORS’ NAMES.
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.OF EATING OF FLESH. — TRACT I. — TRACT II
5. 5.LIVES OF THE TEN ORATORS. — I. ANTIPHON. — II. ANDOCIDES. — III. LYSIAS. — IV. ISOCRATES. — V. ISAEUS. — VI. AESCHINES. — VII. LYCURGUS. — VIII. DEMOSTHENES. — IX. HYPERIDES. — X. DINARCHUS. — DECREES PROPOSED TO THE ATHENIANS. — I. — II. — III.
6. 6.WHETHER AN AGED MAN OUGHT TO MEDDLE IN STATE AFFAIRS.
7. 7.POLITICAL PRECEPTS.
8. 8.WHICH ARE THE MOST CRAFTY, WATER-ANIMALS OR THOSE CREATURES THAT BREED UPON THE LAND? — AUTOBULUS, SOCLARUS, OPTATUS, PHAEDIMUS, ARISTOTIMUS, HERACLEO.
9. 9.THAT BRUTE BEASTS MAKE USE OF REASON ULYSSES, CIRCE, GRYLLUS.
10. 10.OF THE FACE APPEARING WITHIN THE ORB OF THE MOON. — LAMPRIAS, APOLLONIDES, LUCIUS, PHARNACES, SYLLA, ARISTOTELES, THEON, MENELAUS
11. 11.OF FATE. 109
12. 12.CONCERNING THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF COLD.
13. 13.WHETHER WATER OR FIRE BE MOST USEFUL.
14. 14.AGAINST COLOTES, THE DISCIPLE AND FAVORITE OF EPICURUS.
15. 15.PLUTARCH’S CONSOLATORY LETTER TO HIS WIFE.
16. 16.OF THE THREE SORTS OF GOVERNMENT, MONARCHY, DEMOCRACY, AND OLIGARCHY.
17. 17.WHETHER THE ATHENIANS WERE MORE RENOWNED FOR THEIR WARLIKE ACHIEVEMENTS OR FOR THEIR LEARNING.
18. 18.AGAINST RUNNING IN DEBT, OR TAKING UP MONEY UPON USURY.
19. 19.PLUTARCH’S PLATONIC QUESTIONS. — QUESTION I. — QUESTION II. — QUESTION III. — QUESTION IV. — QUESTION V. — QUESTION VI. — QUESTION VII. — QUESTION VIII. — QUESTION IX. — QUESTION X.
20. 20.PARALLELS, OR A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORIES. 174
21. 21.OF THE NAMES OF RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS, AND OF SUCH THINGS AS ARE TO BE FOUND THEREIN. 175 — I. Hydaspes. — II. Ismenus. — III. Hebrus. — IV. Ganges. — V. Phasis. — VI. Arar. — VII. Pactolus. — VIII. Lycormas. — IX. Maeander. — X. Marsyas. — XI. Strymon. — XII. Sagaris. — XIII. Scamander. — XIV. Tanais. — XV. Thermodon. — XVI. Nile. — XVII. Eurotas. — XVIII. Inachus. — XIX. Alpheus. — XX. Euphrates. — XXI. Caicus. — XXII. Achelous. — XXIII. Araxes. — XXIV. Tigris. — XXV. Indus.
22. 22.FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.INDEX.

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