This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Table of Contents:
When the Eleans were commended for conducting the Olympic games honourably, he said, ‘What wonderful feat is it if they practise justice on one day in four years ?’ And when these same persons were persistent in their commendation, he said, ‘What wonder if they practise honourably an honourable thing, that is, justice ?’ 1
1 Ibid. 215 F, and Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xx. (52 C).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com