Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, 9.0

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[1] τὸ ἔνατον τῶν Συμποσιακῶν, ὦ Σόσσιε Σενεκίων, 5 736d περιέχει λόγους τοὺς Ἀθήνησιν ἐν τοῖς Μουσείοις γενομένους καὶ¹ μάλιστα τὴν ἐννεάδα ταῖς Μούσαις προσήκειν. ὁ δʼ ἀριθμὸς; ἂν ὑπερβάλλῃ τὴν συνήθη δεκάδα τῶν ζητημάτων, οὐ θαυμαστέον ἔδει γὰρ πάντα ταῖς Μούσαις ἀποδοῦναι τὰ τῶν 10 Μουσῶν καὶ μηδὲν ἀφελεῖν ὥσπερ ἀφʼ ἱερῶν, πλείονα καὶ καλλίονα τούτων ὀφείλοντας αὐταῖς.

Quaestiones Convivales. Plutarch. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Leipzig. 1892.

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Συμποσιακῶν προβλημάτων βιβλία (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. IV. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1892.)

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Symposiacs Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. III. Goodwin, William W., editor; Creech, Thomas, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 9.0 focus

[1] This ninth book, Sossius Senecio, contains the discourses we held at Athens at the Muses’ feast, for this number nine is agreeable to the number of the Muses. Nor must you wonder when you find more than ten questions (which number I have observed in my other books) in it; for we ought to give the Muses all that belongs to them, and be as careful of robbing them as of a temple, since we owe them much more and much better things than these.

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Συμποσιακῶν προβλημάτων βιβλία

1. καὶ] τῷ καὶ Turnebus. Sed ut vid. bene se habet καὶ ut ad quaestionem XIV referatur i.e. καὶ ὅτι μάλιστα ἡ ἐννεὰς ταῖς M. προσήκει

Plutarch Quaestiones Convivales 9.0

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