Philosophy
On the Eating of Flesh · De esu carnium
Plutarch
Translated by William Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
Two speeches against eating meat: you ask why Pythagoras abstained; ask rather what moved the first man to taste flesh.
Start reading → Markdown.md ↓- Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg131, tlg0007.tlg132, CC BY-SA 4.0).
- English: William Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg131.perseus-eng4, tlg0007.tlg132.perseus-eng3). Notes are not included.
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