The Catalogues of Women and Other Fragments · 1914
The Precepts of Chiron
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Loeb, 1914)
[1] Scholiast on Pindar, Pyth. vi. 19: ‘And now, pray, mark all these things well in a wise heart. First, whenever you come to your house, offer good sacrifices to the eternal gods.’
[2] Plutarch Mor. 1034 E: ‘Decide no suit until you have heard both sides speak.’
[3] Plutarch de Orac. defectu ii. 415 C: ‘A chattering crow lives out nine generations of aged men, but a stag’s life is four times a crow’s, and a raven’s life makes three stags old, while the phoenix outlives nine ravens, but we, the rich-haired Nymphs, daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder, outlive ten phoenixes.’
[4] Quintilian, i. 15: Some consider that children under the age of seven should not receive a literary education... That Hesiod was of this opinion very many writers affirm who were earlier than the critic Aristophanes; for he was the first to reject the Precepts, in which book this maxim occurs, as a work of that poet.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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