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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1603.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE, IAMES, BY THE Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
• A CATALOGUE CONTEINING the Titles of every Treatise in order, thorow the whole worke: with a direction to the page, where any one of them beginneth.
• OF THE NOVRITVRE AND EDVCATION OF CHILDREN.
  • The Summarie.
  • THE EDVCATION OF CHILDREN.
• HOW A YOONG MAN OVGHT TO HEARE POETS, AND HOW HE MAY TAKE PROFIT BY READING POEMES.
  • The Summarie.
  • READING AND HEARING of Poemes and Poets.
• OF HEARING.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF HEARING.
• OF MORALL VERTVE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF MORALL VERTVE.
• OF VERTVE AND VICE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF VERTVE AND VICE.
• THAT VERTVE MAY BE TAUGHT AND LEARNED.
  • The Summarie.
  • THAT VERTUE MAY BE taught and learned.
• HOW A MAN MAY DI∣SCERNE A FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND.
  • The Summarie.
  • HOW A MAN MAY DISCERNE a flatterer form a friend.
• OF MEEKENES, OR HOW A MAN SHOVLD RE∣FRAINE CHOLER. A TREATISE IN MANER of a Dialogue.
  • The Summarie of the Dialogue.
  • OF MEEKENES, OR HOW A man should refraine choler. A TREATISE IN MANNER of a Dialogue.
• OF CVRIOSITIE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF CVRIOSITIE.
• OF THE TRANQVILLITY AND CONTENTMENT OF MINDE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE TRANQVILLITY AND contentment of minde.
• OF VNSEEMELY AND NAVGHTY BASHFVLNESSE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF UNSEEMELY AND naughtie bashfulnesse.
• OF BROTHERLY LOVE OR AMITIE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF BROTHERLY LOVE or amitie.
• OF INTEMPERATE SPEECH OR GAR∣RVLITIE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF INTEMPERATE speech or Garrulitie.
• OF AVARICE OR COVETOUSNES.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF AVARICE OR Covetousnesse.
• OF THE NATVRALL LOVE OR KINDNES OF PARENTS TO THEIR CHILDREN.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE NATURALL LOVE OR KINDNES OF PARENTS to their children.
• OF THE PLVRALITY OF FRIENDS.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE PLURALITIE of friends.
• OF FORTVNE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF FORTVNE.
• OF ENVIE AND HATRED.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF ENVIE AND HATRED.
• HOW A MAN MAY RECEIVE PROFIT BY HIS ENEMIES.
  • The Summarie.
  • HOW A MAN MAY RECEIVE profit by his enemies.
• HOW A MAN MAY PER∣CEIVE HIS OWNE PROCEE∣DING AND GOING FORWARD IN VERTUE.
  • The Summarie.
  • HOW A MAN MAY PER∣ceive his owne proceeding and going forward in Vertue.
• OF SVPERSTITION.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF SUPERSTITION.
• OF EXILE OR BA∣NISHMENT.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF EXILE OR BANISHMENT.
• THAT WE OVGHT NOT TO TAKE UP MONEY UPON VSVRIE.
  • The Summarie.
  • THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO take up money upon usurie.
• THAT A PHILOSOPHER OUGHT TO CONVERSE ESPE∣CIALLY WITH PRINCES AND GREAT RVLERS, AND WITH THEM TO DISCOVRSE.
  • The Summarie.
  • THAT A PHILOSOPHER OUGHT to converse especially with Princes and great Rulers, and with them to discourse.
• AS TOVCHING A PRINCE OR RULER UNLEARNED.
  • The Summarie.
  • AS TOVCHING A PRINCE or Ruler unlearned.
• THAT VICE ALONE IS SVFFICIENT TO MAKE A MAN WRETCHED.
  • The Summarie.
  • THAT VICE ALONE IS SVF∣ficient to make a man wretched.
• HOW A MAN MAY PRAISE HIMSELFE WITHOUT IN∣CURRING ENVIE AND BLAME.
  • The Summarie.
  • HOW A MAN MAY PRAISE himselfe without incurring en∣vie and blame.
• WHAT PASSIONS AND MALADIES BE WORSE, THOSE OF THE SOULE, OR THOSE OF THE BODIE?
  • The Summarie.
  • WHAT PASSIONS AND MALA∣dies be worse, those of the soule or those of the bodie?
• THE PRECEPTS OF WEDLOCKE.
  • The Summarie.
  • THE PRECEPTS OF WEDLOCKE.
• THE BANQVET OF THE SEVEN SAGES.
  • The Summarie.
  • THE BANQUET OF THE seven Sages.
• INSTRVCTIONS FOR THEM THAT MANAGE AFFAIRES OF STATE.
  • The Summarie.
  • INSTRVCTIONS FOR THEM that manage affaires of State.
• WHETHER AN AGED MAN OUGHT TO MA∣NAGE PUBLICKE AFFAIRES.
  • The Summarie.
  • WHETHER AN AGED MAN ought to manage publike affaires.
• THE APOPHTHEGMES OR NOTABLE SAYINGS OF KINGS, PRINCES AND GREAT CAPTAINS.
  • The Summarie.
• LACONICKE APOPH∣THEGMES, OR THE NOTA∣BLE SAYINGS OF LACE∣DAEMONIANS.
  • The Summarie.
  • LACONICKE APOPH¦thegmes, or the notable sayings of Lacedaemonians.
• THE CVSTOMES AND ORDINANCES AMONG THE LACED AEMONIANS.
• THE APOPHTHEGMES, THAT IS TO SAY, THE NO∣BLE SAYINGS AND ANSWERS OF LACEDAEMONIAN DAMES.
• THE VERTVOVS DEEDS OE WOMEN.
  • The Summarie.
  • THE VERTUOUS DEEDS of women.
    • THE TROJANE DAMES.
    • THE DAMES OF PHOCIS.
    • THE WOMEN OF CHIOS.
    • THE WOMEN OF ARGOS.
    • THE PERSIAN WOMEN.
    • THE WOMEN OF GAULE.
    • THE WOMEN OF MELOS.
    • THE TUSCANE WOMEN.
    • THE LYCIAN WOMEN.
    • THE WOMEN OF SALMATICA.
    • THE MILESIAN WOMEN.
    • THE WOMEN OF CIO.
    • THE WOMEN OF PHOCIS.
    • VALERIA and CLOELIA.
    • MICCA and MEGISTO.
    • PIERIA.
    • POLYCRITE.
    • LAMPSACE.
    • ARETAPHILA.
    • CAMMA.
    • STRATONICE.
    • CHIOMARA.
    • A WOMAN OF PERGAMUS.
    • TIMOCLIA.
    • ERYXO.
    • XENOCRITE.
    • THE WIFE OF PYTHES.
• A CONSOLATORIE ORATION SENT UNTO APOLONIUS UPON THE DEATH OF HIS SONNE.
  • The Summarie.
  • A CONSOLATORIE ORA∣tion sent unto Apollonius upon the death of his sonne.
• A CONSOLOTARIE LETTER, OR DISCOURSE SENT UNTO HIS OWNE WIFE, AS TOUCHING THE DEATH OF HER AND HIS DAUGHTER.
  • The Summarie.
  • A CONSOLATORIE LETTER or Discourse, sent unto his owne wife, as tou∣ching the death of her and his daughter.
• HOW IT COMMETH, THAT THE DIVINE IUSTICE DEFERRETH OTHER-WHILES THE PUNISHMENT OF WICKED PERSONS,
  • The Summarie.
  • HOW IT COMMETH, THAT the divine justice deferreth otherwhiles the punishment of wicked persons.
• THAT BRVTE BEASTES HAVE USE OF REASON; A discourse in maner of a dialogue, named GRYLLUS.
  • The Summarie.
  • THAT BRUTE BEASTES have use of reason.
• WHETHER IT BE LAWFULL TO EAT FLESH OR NO. The former Oration or Treatise.
  • The Summarie.
  • WHETHER IT BE LAW∣full to eat flesh or no. The former Oration or Treatise.
• OF EATING FLESH. The second Declamation.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF EATING FLESH. The second Declamation.
• THAT A MAN CANNOT LIVE PLEASANTLY ACCOR∣DING TO THE DOCTRINE OF EPICURUS.
  • The Summarie.
  • THAT A MAN CANNOT live pleasantly according to the do∣ctrine of Epicurus.
• WHETHER THIS COM∣MON MOT, BE WELL SAID: LIVE HIDDEN: OR, SO LIVE, AS NO MAN MAY KNOW THOV LIVEST.
  • The Summarie.
  • WHETHER THIS COMMON Mot, be well said: Live hidden: or, So live, as no man may know thou livest.
• RVLES AND PRECEPTS OF HEALTH IN MANER OF A DIALOGUE.
  • The Summarie.
  • RULES AND PRECEPTS OF health in maner of a dialogue.
• OF THE ROMANS FORTUNE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE ROMANS FORTUNE.
• THE MORALS OR MISCELLANE WORKS OF PLUTARCH. The second Tome.
  • THE SYMPOSIAQVES OR TABLE-QUESTIONS. The first Booke.
    • The Summarie.
    • THE SYMPOSIAQUES OR Table-questions.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SECOND QUESTION.
      • THE THIRD QUESTION.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
      • THE SIXTH QUESTION.
      • THE SEVENTH QUESTION.
      • THE EIGHTH QUESTION.
      • THE NINTH QUESTION.
      • THE TENTH QUESTION.
  • THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE SYMPOSIAQUES.
    • The Summarie, or severall Chapters thereof.
    • THE SECOND BOOKE OF the Symposiaques.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SECOND QUESTION.
      • THE THIRD QUESTION.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
      • THE SIXTH QUESTION.
      • THE SEVENTH QUESTION.
      • THE EIGHTH QUESTION.
      • THE NINTH QUESTION.
      • THE TENTH QUESTION.
  • THE THIRD BOOKE OF SYMPOSIAQUES OR BANQUET-QUESTIONS.
    • The Contents, or Chapters thereof.
    • THE THIRD BOOKE OF Symposiaques or banquet-questions.
      • The Preamble or Proëme.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SECOND QUESTION.
      • THE THIRD QUESTION.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
      • THE SIXTH QUESTION.
      • THE SEVENTH QUESTION.
      • THE EIGHT QUESTION.
      • THE NINTH QUESTION.
      • THE TENTH QUESTION.
  • THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF SYMPOSIAQUES OR BANQUET-QUESTIONS.
    • The Contents or Summarie.
    • THE FOURTH BOOKE OF Symposiaques or banquet-questions.
      • The Proëme.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SEGOND QUESTION.
      • THE THIRD QUESTION.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
  • THE FIFTH BOOKE OF SYMPOSIAQUES OR TABLE-QUESTIONS.
    • The Contents or Summarie.
    • THE FIFTH BOOKE OF Symposiaques or table-questions.
      • The Proëme.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SECOND QUESTION.
      • THE THIRD QUESTION.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
      • THE SIXTH QUESTION.
      • THE SEVENTH QUESTION.
      • THE EIGHT QUESTION.
      • THE NINTH QUESTION.
      • THE TENTH QUESTION.
  • THE SIXTH BOOKE OF SYMPOSIAQUES OR BANQUET-QUESTIONS.
    • The Summarie.
    • THE SIXTH BOOKE OF Symposiaques or banquet-questions.
      • The Proeme.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SECOND QUESTION.
      • THE THIRD QUESTION.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
      • THE SIXTH QUESTION.
      • THE SEVENTH QUESTION.
      • THE EIGHTH QUESTION.
      • THE NINTH QUESTION.
      • THE TENTH QUESTION.
  • THE SVENTH BOOKE OF SYMPOSIAQUES OR BANQUET-DISCOURSES.
    • The Summarie.
    • THE SEVENTH BOOKE OF Symposiaques or banquet-discourses.
      • The Proeme.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SECOND QUESTION.
      • THE THIRD QUESTION.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
      • THE SIXTH QUESTION.
      • THE SEVENTH QUESTION.
      • THE EIGHTH QUESTION.
      • THE NINTH QUESTION.
      • THE TENTH QUESTION.
  • THE EIGHTH BOOKE OF SYMPOSIAQUES OR TABLE-DISCOURSES.
    • The Summarie.
    • THE EIGHTH BOOKE OF Symposiaques or table-discourses.
      • The Proëme.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SECOND QUESTION.
      • THE THIRD QUESTION.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
      • THE SIXTH QUESTION.
      • THE SEVENTH QUESTION.
      • THE EIGHTH QUESTION.
      • THE NINTH QUESTION.
      • THE TENTH QUESTIOIN.
  • THE NINTH BOOKE OF SYMPOSIAQUES OR BANQUET-DISCOURSES.
    • The Summarie or principall chapters thereof.
    • THE NINTH BOOKE OF Symposiaques or banquet-discourses.
      • The Proëme.
      • THE FIRST QUESTION.
      • THE SECOND QUESTION AND THE THIRD.
      • THE FOURTH QUESTION.
      • THE FIFTH QUESTION.
      • THE SIXTH QUESTION.
      • missing questions
      • Of this twelfth question thus much remaineth as followeth.
      • THE THIRTEENTH QUESTION.
      • THE FOURETEENTH QUETSION.
      • THE FIFTEENTH QUESTION.
• THE OPINIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS.
  • The Summarie.
  • THE FIRST BOOKE OF Philosophers opinions.
    • The Prooeme.
    • CHAP. I. What is Nature?
    • CHAP. II. What difference there is betweene a principle and an element.
    • CHAP. III. Of principles or first beginnings, what they be.
    • CHAP. IIII. How the the world was framed?
    • CHAP. V. Whether All be one?
    • CHAP. VI. From whence it came that Men had the notion of God?
    • CHAP. VII. What is God?
    • CHAP. VIII. Of Daemons and demy-gods, otherwise named, Heroes.
    • CHAP. IX. Of Matter.
    • CHAP. X. Of Idea.
    • CHAP. XI. Of Causes.
    • CHAP. XII. Of Bodies.
    • CHAP. XIII. Of the smallest Bodies.
    • CHAP. XIIII. Of Figures.
    • CHAP. XV. Of Colours.
    • CHAP. XVI. Concerning the Section of Bodies.
    • CHAP. XVII. Of Mixture and Temperature.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Of Voidnesse or Vacuttie.
    • CHAP. XIX. Of Place.
    • CHAP. XX. Of Roome or Space.
    • CHAP. XXI. Of Time.
    • CHAP. XXII. Of the Essence of Time.
    • CHAP. XXIII. Of Motion.
    • CHAP. XXIIII. Of Generation and Corruption.
    • CHAP. XXV. Of Necessitie.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Of the Essence of Necessitie.
    • CHAP. XXVII. Of Destinie.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. Of the substance of .
    • CHAP. XXIX. Of Fortune.
    • CHAP. XXX. Of Nature.
  • THE SECOND BOOKE OF Philosophers opinions.
    • The Prooeme.
    • CHAP. I. Of the World.
    • CHAP. II. Of the figure and forme of the World.
    • CHAP. III. Whether the World be animate, or endued with a soule.
    • CHAP. IIII. Whether the World be incorruptible and eternall.
    • CHAP. V. Whereof the World is nourished.
    • CHAP. VI. At which element began God the fabricke of the world?
    • CHAP. VII. Of the order of the worlds fabricke.
    • CHAP. VIII. What is the cause that the world bendeth or copeth forward.
    • CHAP. IX. Whether without the world, there be any vacuitie?
    • CHAP. X. What be the right sides, and which be the left, in regard of the world.
    • CHAP. XI. Of Heaven, and what is the substance thereof.
    • CHAP. XII. Of the division of Heaven: and namely into how many Circles it is divided.
    • CHAP. XIII. What is the substance of the Starres, and how they were made and composed.
    • CHAP. XIIII. The forme and figure of Starres.
    • CHAP. XV. Of the order and situation of Starres.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the lation and motion of the Starres.
    • CHAP. XVII. From whence the Starres have their illumination.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Of the two Starres named Dioscuri, to wit, Castor and Pollux.
    • CHAP. XIX. Of the fignification of Starres, and how commeth winter and summer.
    • CHAP. XX. Of the Sunnes substance.
    • CHAP. XXI. Of the Sunnes magnitude.
    • CHAP. XXII. Of the Sunnes forme.
    • CHAP. XXIII. Of the Solsticies or Tropiques of the Sunne.
    • CHAP. XXIIII. Of the Sunnes eclipse.
    • CHAP. XXV. Of the Moones substance.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Of the Moones .
    • CHAP. XXVII. Of the Moones forme.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. Of the Moones illuminations.
    • CHAP. XXIX. Of the Moones Ecclipse.
    • CHAP. XXX. Of the Moones apparition, and why she seemeth to be earthly.
    • CHAP. XXXI. The distance betweene Sunne and Moone.
    • CHAP. XXXII. Of the yeeres: And how much the yeere of every Planet conteineth the great yeere.
  • THE THIRD BOOKE OF Philosophers opinions.
    • The Prooeme.
    • CHAP. I. Of the Milke way or white circle Galaxia.
    • CHAP. II. Of Comets, or Blazing starres: of Starres seeming to shoot and fall: as also of fierie beames ap∣pearing in the aire.
    • CHAP. III. Of thunders, lightnings flashes, presters or fierie blastes, and tempstuous whirlwinds.
    • CHAP. IIII. Of Clouds, Raine, Snowe, and Haile.
    • CHAP. V. Of the Rainbow.
    • CHAP. VI. Of Water-galles or streaks like rods, somewhat resembling Rainbowes.
    • CHAP. VII. Of Winds.
    • CHAP. VIII. Of Winter and Summer.
    • CHAP. IX. Of the Earth: the substance and magnitude thereof.
    • CHAP. X. The forme of the Earth.
    • CHAP. XI. The of the Earth.
    • CHAP. XII. Of the bending of the earth.
    • CHAP. XIII. The motion of the Earth.
    • CHAP. XIIII. The division of the Earth, and how many Zones it hath.
    • CHAP. XV. Of Earthquakes.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the Sea, how it was made and commeth to be bitter.
    • CHAP. XVII. Of the Tides, to wit, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, what is the cause thereof?
    • CHAP. XVIII. Of the round circle called Halo.
  • THE FOURTH BOOKE OF Philosophers opinions.
    • The Prooeme.
    • CHAP. I. Of the rising and inundation of Nilus.
    • CHAP. II. Of the Soule.
    • CHAP. III. Whether the Soule be a body, and what is the substance of it.
    • CHAP. IIII. The parts of the Soule.
    • CHAP. V. Which is the Mistresse and commanding part of the Soule, and wherein it is.
    • CHAP. VI. The motion of the Soule.
    • CHAP. VII. Of the Soules immortalitie.
    • CHAP. VIII. Of the Senses and sensible objects.
    • CHAP. IX. Whether Senses and Fansies be true or no?
    • CHAP. X. How many Senses there be?
    • CHAP. XI. After what maner is effected Sense, Notion and Reason, according to disposition or affection.
    • CHAP. XII. What difference there is betweene Imagination, Imaginable, Imaginative, and Imagined.
    • CHAP. XIII. Of Sight, and how we doe see.
    • CHAP. XIIII. Of the Resemblances represented in mirrours.
    • CHAP. XV. Whether Darknesse be visible.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of Hearing.
    • CHAP. XVII. Of Smelling.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Of Taste.
    • CHAP. XIX. Of the Voice.
    • CHAP. XX. Whether the Voice be incorporall? and how commeth the Eccho to be formed.
    • CHAP. XXI. How the Soule commeth to be sensitive; and what is the principall and predominant part thereof.
    • CHAP. XXII. Of Respiration.
    • CHAP. XXIII. Of the Passion of the body; and whether the soule have a fellow-feelling with it, of paine and dolour.
  • THE FIFTH BOOKE OF Philosophers opinions.
    • CHAP. I. Of Divination.
    • CHAP. II. How Dreames are caused.
    • CHAP. III. What is the substance of Naturall seed.
    • CHAP. IIII. Whether genetall Seed be a body.
    • CHAP. V. Whether femals send foorth Seed as well as males.
    • CHAP. VI. The maner of Conception.
    • CHAP. VII. How it commeth that Males are engendred, and how Females.
    • CHAP. VIII. How Monsters are engendred.
    • CHAP. IX. What is the reason that a woman though oftentime she companieth with a man doeth not conceive.
    • CHAP. X. How it commeth that two Twinnes and three Twinnes are borne.
    • CHAP. XI. How commeth it to passe that children resemble their parents or progenitours before them.
    • CHAP. XII. How it falleth out that children resemble others, and not their fathers and mothers.
    • CHAP. XIII. How it commeth that some women be barren, and men likewise unable to get children.
    • CHAP. XIIII. Why Mules be barrain.
    • CHAP. XV. Whether the Infant lying yet in the mothers wombe, is to be accounted a living creature or no?
    • CHAP. XVI. How unborne babes are fed in the wombe.
    • CHAP. XVII. What part of the Child is first made perfect within the mothers bellie.
    • CHAP. XVIII. What is the cause that Infants borne at seven moneths end, be livelike.
    • CHAP. XIX. Of the generation of animall creatures; after what maner they be engendred; and whether they be corruptible.
    • CHAP. XX. How many sorts of living creatures there be? whether they be all sensitive and endued with reason.
    • CHAP. XXI. Within what time are living creatures formed in the mothers wombe.
    • CHAP. XXII. Of how many elements is composedech of the generall parts which are in us.
    • CHAP. XXIII. When and how doth man begin to come to his perfection.
    • CHAP. XXIIII. In what manner Sleepe is occasioned or death?
    • CHAP. XXV. Whether of the twaine it is, that or dieth, the Soule or the Bodie?
    • CHAP. XXVI. How Plants come to grow and whether they be animate.
    • CHAP. XXVII. Of and Growth.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. How creatures came to have appetite and pleasure.
    • CHAP. XXIX. After what sort a Fever is engendred, and whether it is an accessary to another malady?
    • CHAP. XXX. Of Health, Sicknesse, and old age.
• ROMANE QVESTIONS, THAT IS TO SAY, AN ENQUIRIE INTO THE CAUSES OF MANIE FASHIONS AND CUSTOMES OF ROME.
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• DEMAVNDS AND QUESTIONS AS TOU∣ching Greeke Affaires: THAT IS TO SAY, A Collection of the maners, and of divers customes and fashions of certaine persons and nations of Greece: which may serve their turne verie well, who reading old Authors, are desirous to know the particularities of Antiquitie.
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• THE PARALLELS, OR A BRIEFE COLLATION OF ROMANE NARRATIONS, WITH THE SEMBLABLE REPOR∣TED OF THE GREEKS.
• THE LIVES OF THE TEN ORATOVRS.
  • The Summarie.
  • THE LIVES OF THE ten oratours.
    • ANTIPHON. I.
    • ANDOCIDES. II.
    • LYSIAS. III.
    • ISOCRATES. IIII.
    • IS AE US. V.
    • AESCHINES. VI.
    • LYCURGUS. VII.
    • DEMOSTHENES. VIII.
    • HYPERIDES. IX.
    • DINARCHUS. X.
• DECREES PROPOSED UNTO the people of Athens.
• OF THREE SORTS OF GOVERNMENT: MONAR∣CHIE, DEMOCRATIE AND OLIGARCHIE.
• A BREVIARIE OF THE COMPARISON BE∣TWEENE ARISTOPHANES AND MENANDER.
  • The Summarie.
  • A BREVIARIE OF THE COM∣parison betweene Aristophanes and Menander.
• NARRATIONS OF LOVE.
  • The Summarie.
  • NARRATIONS OF LOVE.
• WHETHER CREATVRES BE MORE WISE, THEY OF THE LAND, OR THOSE OF THE WATER.
  • The Summarie.
  • WHETHER CREATURES BE more wise; they of the land, or they of the water.
• WHETHER THE ATHE∣NIANS WERE MORE RE∣NOWMED FOR MARTIALL ARMES OR GOOD LETTERS.
  • The Summarie.
  • WHETHER THE ATHENIANS were more renowmed for martiall armes or good letters.
• WHETHER OF THE TWAINE IS MORE PROFITABLE, FIRE OR WATER.
  • The Summarie.
  • WHETHER OF THE TWAINE is more profitable, Fire or Water.
• OF THE PRIMITIVE OR FIRST COLD.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE PRIMITIVE OR first colde.
• NATVRALL QVESTIONS.
  • The Summarie.
  • NATVRALL QVESTIONS.
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• PLATONIQVE QVE∣STIONS.
  • The Summarie.
  • PLATONIQUE QUESTIONS.
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• A COMMENTARIE OF THE CREATION OF THE SOULE, WHICH PLATO DE∣SCRIBETH IN HIS BOOKE TIM AE US.
  • The Summarie.
  • A COMMENTARIE OF THE creation of the soule, which Plato describeth in his booke Timaeus.
• AN EPITOME OR BREVIARIE of a Treatise as touching the creation of the Soule, according to Plato in Timaeus.
• OF FATALL NECESSITY.
• A COMPENDIOVS RE∣VIEW AND DISCOURSE, THAT THE STOICKS DELIVER MORE STRANGE OPINIONS, THAN DO THE POETS.
  • The Summarie.
  • A COMPENDIOUS REVIEW and discourse, That the Stoicks deliver more strange opinions, than do the Poets.
• THE CONTRADIC∣TIONS OF STOICK PHILOSOPHERS.
  • The Summarie.
  • THE CONTRADICTIONS of Stoicke philosophers.
• OF COMMON CON∣CEPTIONS AGAINST THE STOICKS.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF COMMON CONCEPTI∣ons against the Stoicks.
• AGAINST COLOTES, THE EPICUREAN.
  • The Summarie.
  • AGAINST COLOTES THE Epicurean.
• OF LOVE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF LOVE.
• OF THE FACE AP∣PEARING WITHIN THE ROUNDLE OF THE MOONE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE FACE APPEARING in the roundle of the Moone.
• WHY THE PROPHE∣TESSE PYTHIA GIVETH NO ANSWERES NOW FROM THE ORACLE, IN VERSE OR MEETRE.
  • The Summarie.
  • WHY THE PROPHETESSE Pythia giveth no answers now from the Oracle in verse or meeter.
• OF THE DAEMON OR FAMILIAR SPIRIT OF SOCRATES.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE DAEMON OR familiar spirit of Socrates.
• OF THE MALICE OF HERODOTUS.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE MALICE of Herodotus
• OF MVSICKE. A Dialogue.
• OF THE FORTVNE OR VERTUE OF K. Alexander.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE FORTUNE OR vertue of K. Alexander.
• OF THE FORTVNE OR VERTUE OF K. Alexander.
  • The Summarie.
  • THE FORTUNE OR vertue of K. Alexander.
• OF ISIS AND OSIRIS.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF ISIS AND OSIRIS.
• OF THE ORACLES THAT HAVE CEASED TO GIVE ANSWERE.
  • The Summarie.
  • OF THE ORACLES THAT have ceased to give answers.
• WHAT SIGNIFIETH THIS WORD EI, ENGRA∣VEN OVER THE DORE OF APOL∣LOES TEMPLE IN THE CI∣TIE OF DELPHI.
  • The Summarie.
  • WHAT SIGNIFIETH THIS word EI, engraven over the dore of Apolloes temple in the city of Delphi.
• AN EXPLANATION OF SUNDRY TEARMES SOMEWHAT obscure, in this translation of Plutarch, in favour of the unlearned Reader; after the order of the Alphabet.
  • part - a
  • part - b
  • part - c
  • part - d
  • part - e
  • part - f
  • part - g
  • part - h
  • part - i
  • part - k
  • part - l
  • part - m
  • part - n
  • part - o
  • part - p
  • part - q
  • part - r
  • part - s
  • part - t
  • part - v
• AN INDEX POINTING TO THE PRINCIPALL MATTERS CONTEINED IN THE MO∣RALS OF PLVTARCH.
  • part - a
  • part - b
  • part - c
  • part - d
  • part - e
  • part - f
  • part - g
  • part - h
  • part - i
  • part - k
  • part - l
  • part - m
  • part - n
  • part - o
  • part - p
  • part - q
  • part - r
  • part - s
  • part - t
  • part - v
  • part - w
  • part - x
  • part - y
  • part - z
• Errata.