The MouseionPlutarchWhether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public AffairsΕἰ πρεσβυτέρῳ πολιτευτέον
By Plutarch. An seni respublica gerenda sit · English title from the library's translation
- Kind of writing
- Philosophy
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 1st–2nd c. AD
- Length
- 7,691 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 67% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 2 English translations
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textPlutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol V. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig. Teubner, 1893.
- English translationPlutarch. Moralia, Vol. X. Fowler, Harold North, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).
- English translationPlutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. V. Goodwin, William W., editor; Fetherston, F., translator. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company, 1874.