The concluding paragraph to Frank Cole Babbitt’s introductory essay to his Loeb edition of Plutarch’s Moralia:
The statement is not infrequently made in histories of Greek literature that Plutarch is the one Greek author whose work is improved by being translated. Those who make or repeat this statement ought to be condemned to keep company with Sisyphus and the Danaids, and to spend their time in the futile attempt to demonstrate how such a statement can be true.
A breeze from a more civilized time.
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