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While Narcissus is often listed as the origin of the name of the flower, Plutarch suggests it comes from the Greek narkissos, referring to its use as a narcotic used in numbing. It also relates to Persephone, a sign of her return.
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2023-03-16

Plutarch vs Herodotus

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2023-01-29

'The Roman people gave way before the good fortune of Caesar and accepted the bridle bit, regarding the monarchy as a respite from the evils of the civil wars.'

Plutarch, Caesar, 57.

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2022-10-27

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“The Mind Is Not
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2022-10-15

"A child's mind is not a bucket to fill, but a fire to ignite. The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education." - Plutarch (46-119 AD) Greek philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest.

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2022-08-17

Philosopher Saint Justin the Martyr, Poet Homer, Historian Thucydides;
Philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Historian Plutarch

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2022-06-01

[...] no later source, not even Plutarch, has anything to say about the family tradition of the Cassii, less ancient and august than that of the Iunii Bruti, but perhaps providing almost equal pressure towards tyrannicide [Elizabeth Rawson]

or: the game was rigged from the start

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2022-04-05

Even ancient writers recognized that cracks in the rock at the Oracle of Delphi's chamber likely influenced the Oracle's ecstatic visions: Plutarch, a former priest at Delphi, thought the sweet-smelling vapors helped the Oracle obtain visions and divine connection.

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2022-02-09

Like every time it gets to the end and Haymitch reads her the letter from Plutarch I’m like

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2022-02-08

Ὃθεν ὓστερον ἐρωτηθείς ο Σόλων, εἰ τούς ἀρίστους Ἀθηναίοις νόμους ἒγραψεν, <ὧν ἂν>, ἒφη, <προσεδέξαντο τούς ἀρίστους>.

When Solon was asked if the laws he has constituted for the Athenians were the best possible, he replied: "The best that they can accept". Plutarch

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2022-02-07

On one of my favourite 'clever underdog' fables of Aesop: the wren is real the king of the birds because it is cleverer than the eagle on whose back it secretly hitched a ride to the highest heaven before popping out and up (Plutarch, Political Precepts 12.806e).

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2021-12-26

thinking about how appian compares cassius to a gladiator and brutus as someone who seeks out knowledge by nature, so this is 'one of those frequent disputes plutarch writes about, except they're just hanging out on some stairs somewhere bickering until the sun goes down' part II

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2021-11-21

Jokes aside, Plutarchs I drew last year

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2021-11-16

a quiet moment after that One Fight™ 😔

[with no one else present the two men first began blaming one another and then fell to recriminations and counter-charges. These soon led to indignant reproaches and tear, /plutarch]

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2021-11-15

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. —Plutarch

Illustration by Avogado6

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2021-08-11

According to Plutarch, Seth had a beautiful coffin made to Osiris's exact measurements & with 72* conspirators at a banquet, promised it to the one who fit it. Each guest tried it for size, & of course Osiris fit exactly. Immediately Seth & the conspirators nailed the lid shut ..

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2021-07-20