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Plutarch

c. 46–after 119 · Biographer, philosopher and priest of Delphi

A Greek from Chaeronea in Boeotia who spent his life there, served as a priest at Delphi and wrote, under Roman rule, the paired Lives of famous Greeks and Romans and some eighty essays on ethics, religion, nature and the art of living.

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Life of Theseus · Θησεύς
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Romulus · Ῥωμύλος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Lycurgus · Λυκοῦργος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Numa · Νομᾶς
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Solon · Σόλων
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Publicola · Ποπλικόλας
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Themistocles · Θεμιστοκλῆς
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Camillus · Κάμιλλος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Pericles · Περικλῆς
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Fabius Maximus · Φάβιος Μάξιμος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Alcibiades · Ἀλκιβιάδης
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Coriolanus · Γάιος Μάρκιος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Timoleon · Τιμολέων
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Aemilius Paulus · Αἰμίλιος Παῦλος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Pelopidas · Πελοπίδας
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Marcellus · Μάρκελλος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Aristides · Ἀριστείδης
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Cato the Elder · Μάρκος Κάτων
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Philopoemen · Φιλοποίμην
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Titus Flamininus · Τίτος Φλαμινῖνος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Pyrrhus · Πύρρος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Gaius Marius · Γάιος Μάριος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Lysander · Λύσανδρος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Sulla · Σύλλας
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Cimon · Κίμων
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Lucullus · Λούκουλλος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Nicias · Νικίας
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Crassus · Κράσσος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Sertorius · Σερτώριος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Eumenes · Εὐμένης
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Agesilaus · Ἀγησίλαος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Pompey · Πομπήιος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Alexander · Ἀλέξανδρος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Caesar · Καῖσαρ
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Phocion · Φωκίων
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Agis and Cleomenes · Ἆγις καὶ Κλεομένης
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus · Τιβέριος καὶ Γάιος Γράκχοι
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Demosthenes · Δημοσθένης
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Cicero · Κικέρων
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Demetrius · Δημήτριος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Antony · Ἀντώνιος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Dion · Δίων
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Brutus · Βροῦτος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Aratus · Ἄρατος
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Artaxerxes · Ἀρταξέρξης
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Galba · Γάλβας
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
Life of Otho · Ὄθων
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishBernadotte Perrin
On the Education of Children · De liberis educandis
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishSimon Ford, rev. William W. Goodwin
How the Young Man Should Study Poetry · Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishSimon Ford, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Listening to Lectures · De recta ratione audiendi
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Hoy, rev. William W. Goodwin
How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend · Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue · Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
How to Profit by One’s Enemies · De capienda ex inimicis utilitate
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Hartcliffe, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Having Many Friends · De amicorum multitudine
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
On Chance · De fortuna
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Virtue and Vice · De virtute et vitio
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Letter of Condolence to Apollonius · Consolatio ad Apollonium
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishMatthew Morgan, rev. William W. Goodwin
Advice About Keeping Well · De tuenda sanitate praecepta
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishMatthew Poole, rev. William W. Goodwin
Advice to Bride and Groom · Conjugalia praecepta
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men · Septem sapientium convivium
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishRoger Davis, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Superstition · De superstitione
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
Sayings of Kings and Commanders · Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Sayings of Spartans · Apophthegmata Laconica
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
The Ancient Customs of the Spartans · Instituta Laconica
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Sayings of Spartan Women · Lacaenarum apophthegmata
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Bravery of Women · Mulierum virtutes
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishIsaac Chauncy, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Roman Questions · Quaestiones Romanae
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishIsaac Chauncy, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Greek Questions · Quaestiones Graecae
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishIsaac Chauncy, rev. William W. Goodwin
Greek and Roman Parallel Stories · Parallela minora
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Oswald, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Fortune of the Romans · De fortuna Romanorum
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander · De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Phillips, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Glory of the Athenians · De gloria Atheniensium
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
On Isis and Osiris · De Iside et Osiride
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
The E at Delphi · De E apud Delphos
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishR. Kippax, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse · De Pythiae oraculis
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
The Obsolescence of Oracles · De defectu oraculorum
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishRobert Midgley, rev. William W. Goodwin
Can Virtue Be Taught? · An virtus doceri possit
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Patrick, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Moral Virtue · De virtute morali
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishMatthew Morgan, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Control of Anger · De cohibenda ira
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
On Tranquillity of Mind · De tranquillitate animi
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishMatthew Morgan, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Brotherly Love · De fraterno amore
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
On Affection for Offspring · De amore prolis
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
Whether Vice Be Sufficient to Cause Unhappiness · An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficiat
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
Whether the Affections of the Soul Are Worse than Those of the Body · Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishSamuel White, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Talkativeness · De garrulitate
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
On Being a Busybody · De curiositate
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
On Love of Wealth · De cupiditate divitiarum
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Patrick, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Compliancy · De vitioso pudore
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Hoy, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Envy and Hate · De invidia et odio
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishP. Lancaster, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Praising Oneself Inoffensively · De se ipsum citra invidiam laudando
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishP. Lancaster, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance · De sera numinis vindicta
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Fate · De fato
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishA. G., rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Sign of Socrates · De genio Socratis
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Creech, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Exile · De exilio
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Patrick, rev. William W. Goodwin
Consolation to His Wife · Consolatio ad uxorem
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Creech, rev. William W. Goodwin
Table-Talk · Quaestiones convivales
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Creech, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Dialogue on Love · Amatorius
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin
Love Stories · Amatoriae narrationes
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
That a Philosopher Ought to Converse Especially with Men in Power · Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
To an Uneducated Ruler · Ad principem ineruditum
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs · An seni respublica gerenda sit
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Precepts of Statecraft · Praecepta gerendae reipublicae
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishSamuel White, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Monarchy, Democracy and Oligarchy · De unius in republica dominatione, populari statu, et paucorum imperio
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
That We Ought Not to Borrow · De vitando aere alieno
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Lives of the Ten Orators · Vitae decem oratorum
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishCharles Barcroft, rev. William W. Goodwin
A Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander · Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Malice of Herodotus · De Herodoti malignitate
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishA. G., rev. William W. Goodwin
Causes of Natural Phenomena · Quaestiones naturales
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishR. Brown, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon · De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishA. G., rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Principle of Cold · De primo frigido
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishF. Fetherston, rev. William W. Goodwin
Whether Fire or Water Is More Useful · Aquane an ignis sit utilior
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishF. Fetherston, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Cleverness of Animals · De sollertia animalium
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin
Beasts Are Rational · Bruta animalia ratione uti
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishSir A. J., rev. William W. Goodwin
Platonic Questions · Platonicae quaestiones
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishR. Brown, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Stoic Self-Contradictions · De Stoicorum repugnantiis
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishE. Smith, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Stoics Talk More Paradoxically than the Poets · Compendium argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
Against the Stoics on Common Conceptions · De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishSamuel White, rev. William W. Goodwin
That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible · Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
Reply to Colotes · Adversus Colotem
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishA. G., rev. William W. Goodwin
Is “Live Unknown” a Wise Precept? · An recte dictum sit latenter esse vivendum
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishCharles Whitaker, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Eating of Flesh · De esu carnium
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- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin

The Parallel Lives, each with its Comparison, and the essays of the Moralia, in Greek beside English.

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