Plutarch, Consolatio Ad Uxorem, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, 1

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608b ὅν ἔπεμψας ἀπαγγελοῦντα περὶ τῆς τοῦ παιδίου τελευτῆς·, ἔοικε διημαρτηκέναι καθʼ ὁδὸν εἰς Ἀθήνας πορευόμενος· ἐγὼ δʼ εἰς Τάναγραν ἐλθὼν ἐπυθόμην παρὰ τῆς θυγατριδῆς. τὰ μὲν οὖν περὶ 5 τὴν ταφὴν ἤδη νομίζω γεγονέναι· γεγονότα δʼ ἐχέτω ὥς σοι μέλλει καὶ νῦν ἀλυπότατα καὶ πρὸς τὸ λοιπὸν ἕξειν. εἰ δέ τι βουλομένη μὴ πεποίηκας ἀλλὰ μένεις τὴν ἐμὴν γνώμην, οἴει δὲ κουφότερον οἴσειν γενομένου· καὶ τοῦτʼ ἔσται δίχα πάσης περιεργίας 10 καὶ δεισιδαιμονίας, ὧν ἥκιστά σοι μέτεστι. 608c

Consolatio Ad Uxorem. Plutarch. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Leipzig. 1891.

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Παραμυθητικός εἰς τὴν γυναῖκα τὴν αὑτου (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. IΙI. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1891.)

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Plutarch's Consolatory Letter to His Wife Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. V. Goodwin, William W., editor; Creech, Thomas, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 1 focus

[1] As for the messenger you despatched to tell me of the death of my little daughter, it seems he missed his way as he was going to Athens. But when I came to Tanagra, I heard of it by my niece. I suppose by this time the funeral is over. I wish that whatever has been done may create you no dissatisfaction, as well now as hereafter. But if you have designedly let any thing alone, depending upon my judgment, thinking better to determine the point if I were with you, I pray let it be without ceremony and timorous superstition, which I know are far from you.

Plutarch Consolatio Ad Uxorem 1

ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs

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