The MouseionPlutarchBeasts Are Rational
Beasts Are RationalΠερὶ τοῦ τὰ ἄλογα λόγῳ χρῆσθαι
By Plutarch. Bruta animalia ratione uti · English title from the library's translation
- Kind of writing
- Biology
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 1st–2nd c. AD
- Length
- 3,882 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 70% 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. VI. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1895.
- English translationPlutarch. Moralia, Vol. XII. Cherniss, Harold, and Helmbold, William C., translators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1957 (printing)
- English translationPlutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. V. Goodwin, William W., editor; J., A., Sir, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.