SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance · De sera numinis vindicta

Plutarch

Translated by John Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin

Why do the gods punish the wicked late, or punish their children? A dialogue ending in a vision of the afterlife.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg107, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: John Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg107.perseus-eng2). 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 · 3

  1. 1Sections 1–10
  2. 2Sections 11–19
  3. 3Sections 20–33