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Plutarch's Morals

Note 441 — Front matter (continued 5)

A. R. (Arthur Richard) Shilleto translation

"Auri plumbique oppositio fere proverbialis est. Petronius, 'Satyricon,' 43. Plane fortunæ filius: in manu illius plumbum aureum fiebat."—Wyttenbach. The passage about the Lydian chariot is said to be by Pindar in our author, "Nicias," p. 523 D.

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