Plutarch on the Delay of the Divine JusticePlutarch
Philosophy
Plutarch on the Delay of the Divine Justice
Plutarch
Punishment -- Early works to 1800
[74:1] He freed the province of Achaia from taxes, and endowed it
with certain political rights and privileges. Vespasian restored the
province to its previous condition.
INDEX.
Adrasteia, presiding over the punishment of disembodied souls,
63.
Aesculapius, sprung from a vicious stock, 22.
Aesop, murder of, 34.
Ajax, crime of, 37 n.
Alexander, revenge of, on the Branchidae for the guilt of their
ancestors, 35.
Amphilochus, oracle of, 60 n.
Apollodorus, the prey of terrific visions, 28.
serving a cannibal feast to his associates in crime, 32.
Archytas, forbearance of, 12.
Aristo, punished for sacrilege, 23.
Aristocrates, treachery of, 4.
Artaxerxes Longimanus, penal discipline of, 64 n.
Bessus, the parricide, betraying his crime from remorse, 24.
Bion, the philosopher, cavils of, at the reality of inherited
punishment, 52.
character of, 52 n.
Brasidas, death of, 2.
Callippus, killed by the dagger with which he had procured Dion’s
death, 22.
Calondas, expiating the slaughter of Archilochus, 49.
Cassander, not punished till he had restored Thebes, 7.
Character, hereditary, 44.
Children, inheriting the rewards and punishments due to their
fathers, 39.
Cimon, infamy and fame of, 16.
Dionysius, left unpunished for the good that he might do, 18.
Forbearance, the Divine, affording space for repentance, 13.
Gelon, reformation of, 14.
Glaucus, fraud and punishment of, 32.
God, in his slowness to punish, an example to man, 11.
Hereditary transmission of punishment no more mysterious than
transitions in space, 42.
Heritage of moral qualities lapsing in the first, and reappearing in
some subsequent generation, 58.
Hieron, reformation of, 14.
Hipparchus, punishment of, anticipated in vision, 28.
Immortality, made probable by God’s retributive providence, 48.
Laws, human, often unintelligible, 9.
Lethe, cavern of, 67.
Lyciscus, treachery of, 5.
Lydiades, a tyrant, and afterward a patriot, 15.
Miltiades, a tyrant, yet a patriot, 16.
Mitius, the murderer of, punished, 23.
Municipal life and character, continuous, 43.
Nero, doom of, 73.
Odysseus, redeemed by his own virtues from the curse resting on his
father, 22.
Pausanias, haunted by the apparition of a victim of his lust and
cruelty, 29.
haunting the temple near which he died, 50.
Peisistratus, a usurper, yet a beneficent ruler, 15.
Periander, punishment of, deferred that he might first render
service, 17.
Pericles, of an accursed and infamous race, 28.
Plato, quoted as making God an example to man, 10.
forbearance of, 12.
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