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Short and hurried as this letter is, we feel it is one of those trifles which, as Plutarch observes, throw far more light on character than actions of importance often do. Between 1580 and the appearance of Meres's work in 1598 there was much activity in critical literature. This was succeeded in 1584 by James I.'s Ane Short Treatise conteining some rewles and cautelis to be observit.
Curtis, Life of Webster, i. 585. Curtis, Life of Webster, i. 585. Henry Adams, Life of Gallatin, 59, 60. Wirt, 9. Wirt, 13. This is the passage on which Jefferson, in his extreme old age, made the characteristically inaccurate comment: "His biographer says, 'He read Plutarch every year. I doubt if he ever read a volume of it in his life." Curtis, Life of Webster, i. 585.
Indeed, if it were possible to poll the great body of readers in all ages whose minds have been influenced and directed by books, it is probable that excepting always the Bible the immense majority of votes would be cast in favour of Plutarch.
All her other children are conceived by the sense-world. Their father may be seen and touched, having the life of sense. The Divine Son alone is begotten of the hidden, eternal, Divine, Father Himself. Plutarch, On the Decline of the Oracles; Cicero On the Nature of the Gods.
Plutarch means the Vexillum. Gall. ii. 20; Bell. Hispan. c. 28, Bell. The error may be owing to the copyists. Cn. His history of the Civil Wars was comprised in seventeen books. In saying that Pompeius "let his horse go," I have used an expression that may be misunderstood.
But it is obvious that if Wordsworth or Tennyson were to be judged solely by a line or two picked out by an unfavourable reviewer say from 'Peter Bell' or from the early version of the 'Miller's Daughter' posterity would have a very mistaken appreciation of their merits. Plutarch and the younger Pliny, who had seen more of Cicero's poetry than we have, thought highly of it.
Plutarch ridicules and rejects this story, and says it never has happened, and never will.
It never crossed their minds that the lapse of five hundred years, or the distance of five hundred leagues, could affect the accuracy of a narration; that Livy could be a less veracious historian than Polybius; or that Plutarch could know less about the friends of Xenophon than Xenophon himself.
According to Plutarch, Theseus sacrificed to Terror previous to his battle with the Amazons; an idle tale, it is true, but proving, perhaps, the antiquity of a tradition.
It must, however, be noted that there seems clear proof of the maternal form of marriage having at one time been practised. Plutarch mentions that the relations between husband and wife in Sparta were at first secret. The story told by Pausanias about Ulysses’ marriage certainly points to the custom of the bridegroom going to live with the wife’s family.
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