Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"Plutarch
Philosophy
Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"
Plutarch
Classical literature; Essays; Ethics; Philosophy
_Solution._ The sixty select men chosen from among the nobles,
whom they used as overseers and principal counsellors for life in
matters of greatest concern, they called Amnemones (as a man may
suppose) because they were not accountable to any for what they did,
or verily (in my opinion) rather because they were men carrying much
business in their memories. And he that put questions to vote was
called Aphester.
_Question 5._ Who were the Χρηστοί among the Arcadians and
Lacedaemonians?
_Solution._ When the Lacedaemonians were agreed with the
Tegeats, they made a league with them, and set up a common pillar on
the river Alpheus, upon which this is written, among other things,
“Drive out the Messenians from your borders, and make none of them
χρηστοί, _good_.” Aristotle interpreting this saith, that none
of the Tegeats ought to be slain that endeavored to bring aid to the
Lacedaemonians.
_Question 6._ Who is Κριθολόγος among the Opuntians?
_Solution._ The most of the Greeks did use barley at their ancient
sacrifices, when the citizens offered their first-fruits; now they
called him Crithologus who presided over the sacrifices and received
the first-fruits. They had two priests, one that had the chief charge
of the divine things, the other of daemonic affairs.
_Question 7._ What sort of clouds are the Ploiades?
_Solution._ Showering clouds which were carried up and down
were, for the most part, called Ploiades, as Theophrastus hath said
expressly in his fourth book of Meteors: “Whereas indeed the Ploiades
are those clouds which have a consistency and are not so movable, but
as to color white, which discover a kind of different matter, neither
very watery nor very windy.”
_Question 8._ Who is called Platychaetas among the Boeotians?
_Solution._ They that had many neighboring houses or bordering
fields were so called in the Aeolic dialect, as having wide
domains.[163] I will add one saying out of the Thesmophylacian law,
seeing there are many....
_Question 9._ Who is he among the people of Delphi who is called
Ὁσιωτήρ? And why do they call one of the months Bysius?
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