SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

On Being a Busybody · De curiositate

Plutarch

Translated by William Clark Helmbold

Curiosity about other people’s troubles, and how to turn it to better things.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg102, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: William Clark Helmbold, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg102.perseus-eng3). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 2

  1. 1Sections 2–8
  2. 2Sections 9–16