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PLVTARQVE

English: Plutarch Français : Plutarque

Title

PLVTARQVE

English: Plutarch
Français : Plutarque
Description
Français : Un portrait de Plutarque.

L'inscription en orthographe originelle :

Ta ſage inſtruction ſert de riche couronne

A Trajan, eſleué par deſſus tous humains.
Si les grands te portaient au cœur & dans leurs mains, Vertu viuroit au lieu de Venus & Bellone

La même en orthographe moderne :

Ta sage instruction sert de riche couronne

À Trajan, élevé par-dessus tous humains.
Si les grands te portaient au cœur et dans leurs mains, Vertu vivrait au lieu de Vénus et Bellone.

English: Portrait of Plutarch, Greek historian.

The caption reads:

Your wise teaching served as an impressive crown

Of Trajan, exalted above all men.
If great men heeded you[r words] in their minds and hands [to put them to practice], Virtue would live, instead of Venus [lust] & Bellona [war].

Date 1565
date QS:P571,+1565-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer
Français : Les Vies parallèles, traduit par Jacques Amyot
English: Parallel Lives, Amyot's French translation
Other versions Google Books

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