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" The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order one of the boys to sing a song; to another he put some question which required a judicious answer: for example, Who was the best man in the city? or, What he thought of such an action? "
Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne - Page 155
by Plutarchus - 1809
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1

Plutarch - Classical biography - 1803 - 406 pages
...day ; for we have seen many of them expire under the lash at the altar of * Diana Ort/iia, The /rere, reposing himself after supper, used to order one of...was the best man in the city ? or, What he thought * This is supposed to be the Diana Taurica, whose statue Orestes is said to have brought to Lacedjemon,...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1

Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 358 pages
...endure to this day ; for we have seen many of them expire under the lash at the altar of Diana Orthia *. The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order...best man in the city? or, What he thought of such an action? This accustomed them from their childhood to judge of the virtues, to enter into the affairs...
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Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes Historical ..., Volume 1

Plutarch - 1822 - 502 pages
...endure to this day ; for we have seen many of them expire under the lash at the altar of Diana Orthia.* The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order...best man in the city ?" or " What he thought of such an action ?" This accustomed them from their childhood to judge of the virtues, to enter into the affairs...
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Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, Volume 1

Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 388 pages
...endure to this day i many of whom we have seen expire under the lash, at the altar of Diana Orthia36. The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order...question, which required a judicious answer ; for exM This doctrine Plutarch has borrowed from Xenophon (de Rep. r.accd. h.)i and he elsewhere relates,...
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Plutarch, Volume 1

Plutarch - Greece - 1831 - 356 pages
...endhre to this day ; for we have seen many of them expire under the lash at the altar of Diana Orthia. The iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order...best man in the city ?' or, ' What he thought of such an action ?' This accustomed them from their childhood to judge of the virtues, to enter into the affairs...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 11

Plutarch - 2009 - 354 pages
...respects by the severest virtue. f This is supposed to be the Diana Taurica, whose statue Orestes is said The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order...best man in the city?" or " What he thought of such an action?" This accustomed them from their childhood to judge of the virtues, to enter into the affairs...
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Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes ..., Volume 1

Plutarch - 1834 - 544 pages
...severest virtue. ¿ This is supposed to be the Diana Taurica¿ whose statue Orestes is said The ken, reposing himself after supper, used to order one of the boys to sins a song; to another he put some question which required a judicious answer; for example, “Who...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1

Plutarch - Greece - 1840 - 472 pages
...was to contemn riches and superfluities, and guarded in all other respects by the severest virtue. The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order...best man in the city?" or " What he thought of such an action?" This accustomed them from their childhood to judge of the virtues, to enter into the affairs...
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Plutarch's Lives

Plutarch - Greece - 1841 - 790 pages
...endure to this dayj for we have seen many of them expire under the lash at the altar of Diana Orthiaf The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order...required a judicious answer: for example, Who was the beat man in the city ? or, What ht thought t}!" such an action ? This accustomed them from their childhood...
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Plutarch's Lives

John Langhorne, Plutarch - Greece - 1854 - 766 pages
...endure to this day; for we have seen munvof them expire under the lash at the altar of Diana OrMia.f The Iren, reposing himself after supper, used to order...answer: for example, Who was the best man in the city? or,\Vhat ¡if. tftought of such an action? Tnis accustomed them from their chiMhood to judge of the...
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