SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

How the Young Man Should Study Poetry · Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat

Plutarch

Translated by Simon Ford, rev. William W. Goodwin

Poetry is full of lies and fine things; how a young reader can take the good and leave the rest.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg068, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Simon Ford, rev. William W. Goodwin, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg068.perseus-eng4). 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 1–5
  2. 2Sections 6–10
  3. 3Sections 11–14