Plutarch's Morals
By: translated from the Greek by several hands. Volume III
Publisher: Printed for T. Sawbridge, M. Gilliflower., R. Bently, S. Crouch, A. Churchil, W. Freeman, J. Taylor, T. Bennet, R. Parker, and S. Anson.
Published: 1691
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Notes: Numbers 225-244 (1st count) omitted in the paging, and 185-192 (2d count) repeated.

Added engraved t.-p.

Epistle dedicatory signed: Charles Barcroft.

Translations by Charles Whitaker, John Patrick, John Phillips, & others.
Table of contents: title: 1. A discourse touching the breeding and conduct of children ; Of anger ; Of bashfulness ; That vertue may be taught ; The account of the laws and customs of the Lacedaemonians ; Concerning music ; Of the tranquillity of the mind ; Of superstition or indiscreet devotion ; The apophthegms of kings and great commanders ; Rules for the preservation of health ; How a man may receive advantage from and be profited by his enemies ; Consolation to Apollonius ; Concerning the vertues of women ; Laconick apophthegms ; Of hearing ; Of large acquaintance ; Concerning the fortune or vertue of Alexander the Great ; The banquet of the Seven wise men ; How a young man ought to hear [or read] poems ; Of hatred and envy; title: ^; title: 2. How to know a friend from a flatterer ; That it is not possible to live pleasurably according to the doctrine of Epicurus ; The Roman questions ; The Greek questions ; Of the desire of riches or love of wealth ; How a man may inoffensively praise himself, and without being liable to envy ; Concerning the procreation of the soul as discoursed of in Timaeus ; That a philosopher ought to converse chiefly with great men ; A discourse concerning Socrates's Daemon ; The first, second book of the Symposiacks ; Of curiosity or overbusie inquisitiveness, into things impertinent; title: ^; title: 3. Whether 'twelve said rightly, Live concealed ; An abstract of a comparison between Aristophanes and Manander ; Of banishment, or flying one's country ; How a man may be sensible of his progress in vertue ; Conjugal precepts ; Of brotherly love ; Of fortune ; Of vertue and vice ; Wherefore the Pythian priestess now ceases to deliver her oracles in verse ; Plutarch's giving an account of those sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted ; A breviate of a discourse shewing that the Stoicks speak greater impossibilities than the poets ; Plutarch's Symposiacks, or table talk; title: 4. Why the oracles cease to give answer ; Of Isis and Osiris ; Concerning such whom God is slow to punish ; Of natural affection toward's one's offspring ; Concerning the fortume of Romans; title: ^; title: Of garrulity, or talkativeness ; Of love ; Five tragical histories of love ; Plutarch's Discourse to an unlearned prince ; Of Herodotus's malice ; Of common conception against the Stoicks ; The contradiction of the Stoicks ; Of the word Ei graven over the gates of Apollo's temple at Delphi ; The lives of the ten orators ; Whether an aged man ought to meddle in state affairs.