SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend · Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur

Plutarch

Translated by Frank Cole Babbitt

The flatterer imitates the friend in everything; how to see through him, and how a true friend speaks frankly.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg070, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Frank Cole Babbitt, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg070.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 · 4

  1. 1Sections 2–11
  2. 2Sections 12–20
  3. 3Sections 21–27
  4. 4Sections 28–37