Transcriber’s notes: Italic text is marked _thus_. The spelling, hyphenation, punctuation and accentuation are as the original, except for apparent typographical errors which have been corrected. [Illustration: _Tiberius and Agrippina._ _From the painting by Peter Paul Rubens._] PLUTARCH’S ESSAYS AND MISCELLANIES Comprising all his Works Collected under the Title of “Morals” · Translated from the Greek by Several Hands Corrected and Revised by WILLIAM W. GOODWIN, Ph.D., Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University In Five Volumes · Volume Three [Illustration: HONOS ET VIRTVS] BOSTON · LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY · MCMXI Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, By LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Copyright, 1898, 1905, By LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. Printers S. J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A. CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRD. WITH THE TRANSLATORS’ NAMES. WHETHER 'TWERE RIGHTLY SAID, LIVE CONCEALED. BY CHARLES WHITAKER, ESQUIRE, SOMETIME FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE IN OXFORD. He who said this had no mind to live concealed, 3. Such men strive hard to be known, 3. Even a bad man ought not to withdraw from the notice of others, 4. It is a loss to the world, if virtuous men live concealed, 5. If brave and good men become known, they are examples to others, 6. Virtue by use grows bright; but human abilities, unemployed, go to decay, 7. Our life and all our faculties were given to be used, and to make us known, 8. Only a vicious, useless life should be forgotten, 10. AN ABSTRACT OF A COMPARISON BETWIXT ARISTOPHANES AND MENANDER BY WILLIAM BAXTER, GENT. Aristophanes suits low and vulgar persons; Menander the men of culture; the style of Aristophanes lacks fitness and propriety; it is harsh, coarse, and obscene; Menander charms us by his elegance and refinement, 11. OF BANISHMENT, OR FLYING ONE’S COUNTRY. BY JOHN PATRICK, OF THE CHARTERHOUSE.