Plutarch's Romane questions / translated A.D. 1603 by Philemon Holland ; now again edited by Frank Byron Jevons ; with dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, Aryan marriage, sympathetic magic, and the eating of beans.

  • Plutarch. Aetia Romana. English
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1892
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Credit: Plutarch's Romane questions / translated A.D. 1603 by Philemon Holland ; now again edited by Frank Byron Jevons ; with dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, Aryan marriage, sympathetic magic, and the eating of beans. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    make the meaning clearer to the English reader, and, as a rule, only state explicitly what is really implied in the original. Sometimes (e.g., towards the end of &. Q. 6) he does enlarge on the text beyond all measure ; sometimes, again, defective scholarship leads him to ascribe things to Plu- tarch which Plutarch never said (¢.g., in R. Q. 5, ratra redrov ric Tog “EAAqvinols gormev does not mean “this may feeme in fome fort to have beene derived from the Greeks”); and some- times he is mistaken as to the meaning of a word (e¢.g., exes in R. Q. 5). On the other hand, where the text is corrupt, he sees and says what the meaning really is; and Hearne’s verdict that Holland had “an admirable knack in translating books” does not go beyond the mark. Indeed, it does not do justice to Phile- mon, for it hardly prepares us to learn that, in the infancy of the study of Greek in England, Philemon threw off, among other trifles, trans- lations of all the Moralia of Plutarch, the whole of Livy, the enormous Natural History of Pliny, Suetonius, Ammianus Marcellinus, the Cyropedia of Xenophon, and Camden’s Britannia. Southey is more just to the assiduous labours of a life of study carried to the age of eighty-five, when he
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