From "of The Benefit We May Get By Our Enemies": Translated From Plutarch
1. [HOMER. ILIAD, I. 255-6.]
Sure Priam will to mirth incline,
And all that are of Priam's line.
2. [AESCHYLUS. SEPTEM CONTRA THEBES, 600-1.]
Feeding on fruits which in the heavens do grow,
Whence all divine and holy counsels flow.
3. [EURIPIDES. ORESTES, 251-2.]
Excel then if thou canst, be not withstood,
But strive and overcome the evil with good.
4. [EURIPIDES. FRAGM. MLXXI.]
You minister to others' wounds a cure,
But leave your own all rotten and impure.
5. [EURIPIDES. CRESPHONTES, FRAGM. CCCCLV.]
Chance, taking from me things of highest price,
At a dear rate hath taught me to be wise.
6. [INCERTI.]
[He] Knaves' tongues and calumnies no more doth prize
Than the vain buzzing of so many flies.
7. [PINDAR. FRAGM. C.]
His deep, dark heart--bent to supplant--
Is iron, or else adamant.
8. [SOLON. FRAGM. XV.]
What though they boast their riches unto us?
Those cannot say that they are virtuous.
Sure Priam will to mirth incline,
And all that are of Priam's line.
2. [AESCHYLUS. SEPTEM CONTRA THEBES, 600-1.]
Feeding on fruits which in the heavens do grow,
Whence all divine and holy counsels flow.
3. [EURIPIDES. ORESTES, 251-2.]
Excel then if thou canst, be not withstood,
But strive and overcome the evil with good.
4. [EURIPIDES. FRAGM. MLXXI.]
You minister to others' wounds a cure,
But leave your own all rotten and impure.
5. [EURIPIDES. CRESPHONTES, FRAGM. CCCCLV.]
Chance, taking from me things of highest price,
At a dear rate hath taught me to be wise.
6. [INCERTI.]
[He] Knaves' tongues and calumnies no more doth prize
Than the vain buzzing of so many flies.
7. [PINDAR. FRAGM. C.]
His deep, dark heart--bent to supplant--
Is iron, or else adamant.
8. [SOLON. FRAGM. XV.]
What though they boast their riches unto us?
Those cannot say that they are virtuous.
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