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" Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord. He likewise forbade... "
Third course: Constitutions and orators of Greece. Fourth course: Modern Greece - Page 81
by Cornelius Conway Felton - 1867
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Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's, Volume 1

Plutarch - 1859 - 464 pages
...proper age. And of this enough. Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men: Corrected from the Greek and Revised

Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough - 1876 - 810 pages
...proper age. And of this enough. Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men: Translated from the Greek by ..., Volume 1

Plutarch - 1880 - 626 pages
...proper age. And of this enough. Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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Greece, Ancient and Modern: Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute

Cornelius Conway Felton - 1896 - 1086 pages
...They had the right of voting, not only on ordinary matters of legislation, but in the elections of the archons, who were also accountable to them at the...whomsoever he pleased, the law having previously made the tstate of the deceased absolutely the property of his family. Solon committed the mistake common to...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 3

Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 446 pages
...proper age. And of this enough. Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 2

Richard Garnett - 1899 - 560 pages
...proper age. And of this enough. Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 3

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 438 pages
...proper age. And of this enough. Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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Plutarch's Lives: The "Dryden Plutarch", Volume 1

Plutarch - 1921 - 582 pages
...proper age. And of this enough. Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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Plutarch's Lives: The "Dryden Plutarch", Volume 1

Plutarch - 1914 - 592 pages
...proper age. And of this enough. Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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Sources of Ancient and Primitive Law

Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore - 1915 - 734 pages
...and birth of children. . . . Another commendable law of Solon's is that which forbids men to speak evil of the dead ; for it is pious to think the deceased sacred, and just, not to meddle with those that are gone, and politic, to prevent the perpetuity of discord....
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