Moralia, Volume V - Plutarch

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch
(Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in
central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome
as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor
Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the
father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly
character and independent thought, studious and learned. Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the forty-six Parallel Lives,
biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one
Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are
single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and
characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators.
Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about sixty in number, are
known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics, and religion. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia is in fifteen volumes, volume XIII having two parts. Volume XVI is a comprehensive Index.