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Often appears with: history and the writing of history · reason and the intellect · pythagorean doctrine · leuctra chronology · language, naming, and meaning · greek sayings in roman texts · greek history vs biography · education and the training of the young · demosthenes · battle of leuctra
Usually: argument (1) · commentary or gloss (1) · crisis of belief (1) · censure (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
Plutarch says Cato learned Pythagorean ideas about pleasure and the soul, studied rhetoric late using Thucydides and Demosthenes, and then emphasizes that his writings preserve Greek sayings within his own apothegms.
more by Demosthenes: his writings, however, are considerably embellished with Greek sayings and stories; nay, many of these, translated word for word, are placed with his own apothegms and sentences. There was a man of the highest rank, and very influential among the Romans, called Valerius Flaccus, who was singularly skillful in discerning excellence yet in the bud, and, also, much disposed to nourish and advance i…
Polybius complains that Theopompus’s plan is inconsistent: after writing a Greek history continuing Thucydides up to Leuctra, he abandons Greece midstream to write about Philip, supposedly for expediency not honor.
[Sidenote: Seventeen times Strategus. Plutarch, *Aratus*, 53.] In consequence of having been so often elected Strategus of the Achaean league, and of having performed so many splendid services for that people, Aratus after his death met with the honours he deserved, both in his own native city and from the league as a body. They voted him sacrifices and the honours of heroship, and in a word every thing calculated t…