SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

On Talkativeness · De garrulitate

Plutarch

Translated by William Clark Helmbold

Against chatterers, who cannot keep a secret or stop talking, with stories of tongues that ruined their owners.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg101, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: William Clark Helmbold, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg101.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 2–12
  2. 2Sections 13–23