Plutarch and History by Pelling Christopher.;

Author:Pelling, Christopher.; [Pelling, Christopher.;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0715631284
Publisher: ISD Distribution
Published: 2011-07-15T05:00:00+00:00

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THE MORALISM OF PLUTARCH’S LIVES

For there is always a risk that civil life will damage the reputation of those who owe their greatness to warfare, and are ill-suited to democratic equality. They expect to enjoy the same supremacy in this new sphere, whereas their opponents, worsted by them on campaign, find it intolerable if they cannot overtake them even here. Thus they delight in taking a man with a glorious record of campaigning and triumphs, and when they have him in the forum they take care to subdue him and put him down; whereas they behave differently to a man who lays aside and yields the honour and power he enjoyed on campaign, and they preserve his authority unimpaired.

(Pomp. 23.5–6)

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