Chapter XIX: Appendix

A list of Plutarch’s works in the order of Bernardakis’ edition. Lipsiae, 1888-96.

VOLUME I.

_De liberis educandis_, (On the education of children).

_Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat_, (How a young man ought to
hear poems).

_De recta ratione audiendi_, (How one ought to hear lectures).

_Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur_, (How one may distinguish
a flatterer from a friend).

_Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus_, (How one may know
whether he is making progress in virtue).

_De capienda ex inimicis utilitate_, (How one may profit by his
enemies).

_De amicorum multitudine_, (On the abundance of friends).

_De fortuna_, (On good and ill fortune).

_De virtute et vitio_, (On virtue and vice).

_Consolatio ad Apollonium_, (Consolation for Apollonius).

_De tuenda sanitate præcepta_, (Precepts on the preservation of
health).

_Conjugalia præcepta_, (Precepts on matrimony).

_Septem sapientum convivium_, (The banquet of the seven sages).

_De superstitione_, (On superstition).

VOLUME II.

_Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata_, (Memorable sayings of kings
and commanders).

_Apophthegmata Laconica_, (Memorable sayings of Spartans).

_Instituta Laconica_, (The ancient customs of the Lacedaemonians).

_Lacænarum apophthegmata_, (Memorable sayings of Spartan women).

_Mulierum virtutes_, (Heroic deeds of women).

_Ætia Romana_, (A list of topics, Roman).

_Ætia Græca_, (A list of topics, Greek).

_Parallela Græca et Romana_, (A collection of Greek and Roman
historical parallels).

_De fortuna Romanorum_, (On the good fortune of the Romans).

_De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, oratio I et II_, (On the
good fortune or valor of Alexander the Great, discourses I and II).

_Bellone an pace clariores fuerint Athenienses_, (Were the Athenians
more distinguished in war or in wisdom)?

_De Iside et Osiride,_ (Concerning Isis and Osiris).

VOLUME III.

_De E apud Delphos_, (On the E at Delphi).

_De Pythia oraculis_, (On the cessation of the Pythian oracles in
meter).

_De defectu oraculorum_, (On the cessation of oracles).

_An virtus doceri possit_, (Can virtue be taught)?

_De virtute morali_, (On moral virtue).

_De cohibenda ira_, (On the control of the temper).

_De tranquillitate animi_, (On peace of mind).

_De fraterno amore_, (On fraternal love).

_De amore prolis_, (On the love of offspring).

_An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficiat_, (Does vice of itself
make men unhappy)?

_Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores_, (Are the sufferings
of the mind more grievous than those of the body)?

_De garrulitate_, (On talkativeness).

_De curiositate_, (On meddlesomness).

_De cupiditate divitiarum_, (On the love of riches).

_De vitioso pudore_, (On excess of modesty).

_De invidia et odio_, (Concerning envy and hatred).

_De se ipsum citra invidiam laudando_, (On praising one’s self
without reproach).

_De sera numinis vindicta_, (Concerning those whom God is slow to
punish).

_De fato_, (On fate).

_De genio Socratis_, (On the tutelary deity of Socrates).

_De exilio_, (On exile).

_Consolatio ad uxorem_, (A letter of condolence to his wife).

VOLUME IV.

_Questionum convivialium libri IX_, (Nine books of table-talk).

_Amatorius_, (A dialogue on love).

_Amatoriae narrationes_, (Love stories).

VOLUME V.

_Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum_, (On the
proposition that the philosopher ought chiefly to converse with
rulers).

_Ad principem ineruditum_, (To an uneducated ruler).

_An seni res publica gerenda sit_, (Should an old man hold a public
office)?

_Praecepta gerendae rei publicae_, (Political precepts).

_De unius in re publica dominatione, populari statu et paucorum
imperio_, (On monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy).

_De vitando aere alieno_, (On avoiding debts).

_X oratorum vitae_, (The lives of the ten orators).

_De comparatione Aristophanis et Menandri epitome_ (Abstract of a
comparison between Aristophanes and Menander).

_De Herodoti malignitate_, (On the malice of Herodotus).

_De placitis philosophorum libri V_, (Five books of maxims of the
philosophers).

_Aetia physica_, (Problems in physics).

_De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet_, (Concerning the face that
appears on the moon’s disk).

_De primo frigido_, (On the origin of cold).

VOLUME VI.

_Aquane an ignis sit utilior_, (Is fire or water the more useful)?

_Terrestriane an aquatilia animalia sint callidiora_, (Are water or
land animals the more cunning)?

_Bruta animalia ratione uti_, (On the use of reason by brutes).

_De esu carnium, orationes duo_, (On the eating of flesh, two
discourses).

_Platonicae quaestiones_, (Platonic questions).

_De animae procreatione in Timaeo_, (On the origin of the soul in
the Timaeus).

_Epitome libri de animae procreatione in Timaeo_, (Abstract of the
book on the origin of the soul in the Timaeus).

_De Stoicorum repugnantiis_, (On contradictions of the Stoics).

_Compendium libri cui argumentum fuit, Stoicos absurdiora poetis
dicere_, (Synopsis of the book the argument of which was, The Stoics
utter greater absurdities than the poets).

_De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos_, (Concerning the common
conceptions against the Stoics).

_Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum_, (That it is not
possible to live pleasurably according to Epicurus).

_Adversus Coloten_, (Against Colotes).

_An recte dictum sit latenter vivendum esse_, (Is it a true saying
that one ought to live in seclusion)?

_De musica_, (On music).

VOLUME VII.

_De fluviorum et montium nominibus et de iis quæ in illis
inveniuntur_, (On the names of rivers and mountains and those things
that are found in them).

_De vita et poesi Homeri, Lib. I et II_, (On the life and poetry of
Homer).

The two treatises last named fill more than one-third of the volume, the remainder being chiefly taken up with fragments, some of them only a few lines in length. It also contains the so-called catalogue of Lamprias which, including the Parallel lives, assigns 227 different works to Plutarch. Volume seven concludes with an index of names. As these treatises are usually cited by their Latin titles, they only are given above. A complete edition of Plutarch’s Morals, with an introduction by R. W. Emerson was published in Boston about twenty-five years ago, under the editorial supervision of Professor Goodwin of Harvard University. The translations were made by a number of English scholars near the close of the seventeenth century. In their revised form they are in the main correct and some of them are vigorous and readable.

● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).
○ Footnotes have been moved to follow the sections in which they are
referenced.