The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise
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The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise
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CHAP. XXIII. When and how doth man begin to come to his perfection. [ 40]
HERACLITUS and the STOICKS suppose, that men doe enter into their perfection a∣bout the second septimane of their age, at what time as their naturall seed doth moove and runne: for even the very trees begin then, to grow unto their perfection; namely, when as they begin to engender their 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ; for before then, unperfect they are, namely, so long as they be unripe and fruitlesse: and therefore a man likewise about that time is perfect: and at this septenarie of yeeres he beginneth to conceive and understand what is good and evill, yea, and to learne the same.
* 1.1 Some thinke that a man is consummate at the end of the third septimane of yeeres, what [ 50] time as he maketh use of his full strength.