WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE UNHAPPINESS.304

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plutarch and Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard)

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287 So Haupt and Herscher very ingeniously for ἱερεῦσιν.
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288 Adopting the suggestion of Wyttenbach as to the reading. The Dorian measure was grave and severe, the Lydian soft and effeminate.
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289 See our author, "Apophthegmata Laconica," p. 220 C.
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291 This line is quoted again by our author, "On Moral Virtue," § vii.
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293 See those splendid lines of Lucretius, iv. 1155-1169.
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294 "Res valde celebrata ex Institutione Cyri Xenophontea, v. 1, 2; vi. 1, 17."—Wyttenbach.
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295 This line is very like a Fragment in the "Danae" of Euripides. Dind. (328).
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297 Such as Homer could have brought. Compare Horace, "Odes," iv. ix. 25-28; and Cicero, "pro Archia," x. "Magnus ille Alexander—cum in Sigeo ad Achillis tumulum adstitisset, O fortunate, inquit, adolescens, qui tuæ virtutis Homerum præconem inveneris."
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298 Contrary to Hesiod's saw, "Works and Days," 361, 362.
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300 Like Horace's "Non si male nunc, et olim Sic erit." "Odes," ii. x. 16, 17.
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303 Like Horace's factus ad unguem, because the sculptor tries its polish and the niceness of the joints by drawing his nail over the surface. Casaub. Pers. i. 64; Horace, "Sat." i. v. 32, 33; A. P. 294; Erasmus, "Adagia," p. 507.

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Plutarch's Morals, Project Gutenberg eBook #23639

HOW ONE MAY BE AWARE OF ONE'S PROGRESS IN VIRTUE. WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE UNHAPPINESS.304