Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, ed. William W. Goodwin, 12

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Question 12.

Why do they esteem Saturn the father of truth?

Solution. Is it not the reason that some philosophers believe that Κρόνος ( Saturn) is the same with Χρόνος ( time), and time finds out truth? Or is it for that which was fabled of Saturn’s age, that it was most just and most likely to participate of truth?

Quaestiones Romanae. Plutarch. ed. William W. Goodwin. Boston. 1874.

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Roman Questions (English) (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. II. Goodwin, William W., editor; Chauncy, Isaac translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.)

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Αἴτια Ῥωμαϊκά Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).) — 12 focus

[12] διὰ τί δὲ τὸν Κρόνον πατέρα τῆς ἀληθείας νομίζουσι;

πότερον, ὥσπερ ἔνιοι τῶν φιλοσόφων, χρόνον 266f οἴονται τὸν Κρόνον εἶναι, τὸ δʼ ἀληθὲς εὑρίσκει χρόνος· ἢ τὸν μυθολογούμενον ἐπὶ Κρόνου βίον, εἰ δικαιότατος ἦν, εἰκός ἐστι μάλιστα μετέχειν ἀληθείας;

Κεφαλαίων καταγραφή Ῥωμαϊκά Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol IΙ. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.) — 12 focus

[12] διὰ τί δὲ τὸν Κρόνον πατέρα τῆς ἀληθείας νομίζουσι; πότερον, ὥσπερ ἔνιοι τῶν φιλοσόφων, 266f χρόνον οἴονται τὸν Κρόνον εἶναι, τὸ δʼ ἀληθὲς εὑρίσκει χρόνος· ἢ τὸν μυθολογούμενον ἐπὶ Κρόνου βίον, εἰ δικαιότατος ἦν, εἰκός ἐστι μάλιστα μετέχειν ἀληθείας;

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The Roman Questions Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).) — 12 focus

[12] And why do they consider Saturn father of Truth?

Is it that they think, as do certain philosophers,¹ that Saturn (Kronos) is Time (Chronos), and Time discovers the truth? Or because it is likely that the fabled Age of Saturn, if it was an age of the greatest righteousness, participated most largely in truth?

Plutarch Quaestiones Romanae 12

ed. William W. Goodwin

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