Chris Hall<p>"What made Caesar most openly and mortally hated was his passion to be made king. It was this which made the common people hate him for the first time" - Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic (page 311 of this version).</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Coffee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coffee</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BookStadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookStadon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rome</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/King" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>King</span></a></p>
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the roamer<p>Reflections on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonCulture</span></a>.</p><p>I am a happy denizen of Mastodonia. </p><p>I carefully curate my timeline. I follow an account only once I have looked at what they post and I feel resonance. I unfollow if I disagree on core issues. Very rarely I block.</p><p>I boost posts that I like and that I hope my Followers would like. I try not to boost too much, since my Followers want to see other posts as well. I don't want to crowd out.</p><p>I Like a lot and I Boost, and sometimes I Reply to a post that resonanates. I do that as part of a dialogue with the OP. </p><p>Sometimes I also do my own posts. </p><p>I write about the things I want to share here on the Fedi. Some of these turn out to be "popular", others receive no response. I enjoy it if one of my posts is popular, but I write as I please. I know my Followers will forgive me for posts they aren't interested in. </p><p>So I keep posting on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> even though few are interested. Because it needs to be said. </p><p>Stay with me, if you can! </p><p>The Fedi is good.</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FabiusMaximus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FabiusMaximus</span></a> 6/</p><p>After this he began with the gods, which is the fairest of all beginnings. </p><p>He showed the people that the recent disaster was due to the neglect and scorn with which their general had treated religious rites, and not to any cowardice of those who fought under him.</p><p>He thus induced them, instead of fearing their enemies, to propitiate and honour the gods.</p><p>He emboldened their valour with piety, allaying and removing the fear which their enemies inspired, with hopes of aid from the gods.</p><p>[Section 4]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/thereisastrengthinusthatcannotbedestroyedandifwerecogniseitwewillprevail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thereisastrengthinusthatcannotbedestroyedandifwerecogniseitwewillprevail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FabiusMaximus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FabiusMaximus</span></a> 3/</p><p>He saw that the conduct of the state was a great task, and that wars must be many; he therefore trained his body for the wars (nature's own armour, as it were), and his speech as an instrument of persuasion with the people, giving it a form right well befitting his manner of life. </p><p>His speech had no affectation, nor any empty, forensic grace, but an import of peculiar dignity, rendered weighty by an abundance of maxims.</p><p>[Section 1]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FabiusMaximus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FabiusMaximus</span></a> 2/ </p><p>Indeed, the calmness and silence of his demeanour, the great caution with which he indulged in childish pleasures, the slowness and difficulty with which he learned his lessons, and his contented submissiveness in dealing with his comrades, led those who knew him superficially to suspect him of something like foolishness and stupidity. </p><p>Only a few discerned the inexorable firmness in the depth of his soul, and the magnanimous and leonine qualities of his nature. </p><p>But soon, as time went on and he was roused by the demands of active life, he made it clear even to the multitude that his seeming lack of energy was only lack of passion, that his caution was prudence, and that his never being quick nor even easy to move made him always steadfast and sure.</p><p>[Section 1]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/InPraiseOfSlowness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InPraiseOfSlowness</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FabiusMaximus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FabiusMaximus</span></a> 1/ </p><p>It was a nymph, they say, or a woman native to the country, according to others, who consorted with Hercules by the river Tiber, and became by him the mother of Fabius, the founder of the family of the Fabii, which was a large one, and of high repute in Rome. [...] </p><p>This family produced many great men, and from Rullus, the greatest of them, and on this account called Maximus by the Romans, the Fabius Maximus of whom we now write was fourth in descent. </p><p>[Section 1]</p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E</span><span class="invisible">/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/nymphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nymphs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 21/</p><p>So, then, the man is to be admired not only for his reasonableness and the gentleness which he maintained in the midst of many responsibilities and great enmities, but also for his loftiness of spirit, seeing that he regarded it as the noblest of all his titles to honour that he had never gratified his envy or his passion in the exercise of his vast power, nor treated any one of his foes as a foe incurable. </p><p>[Section 39]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 20/</p><p>As Pericles was near his end, the best of the citizens and those of his friends who survived were sitting around him holding discourse of his excellence and power, how great they had been, and estimating all his achievements and the number of his trophies, — there were nine of these which he had set up as the city's victorious general. </p><p>Speaking out among them, Pericles said he was amazed at their praising and commemorating that in him which was due as much to fortune as to himself, and which had fallen to the lot of many generals besides, instead of mentioning his fairest and greatest title to their admiration; "for," said he, "no living Athenian ever put on mourning because of me." </p><p>[Section 38]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NotToCauseMourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotToCauseMourning</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 19/</p><p>Pericles lost his sister also at that time, and of his relatives and friends the largest part, and those who were most serviceable to him in his administration of the city. </p><p>He did not, however, give up, nor yet abandon his loftiness and grandeur of spirit because of his calamities, nay, he was not even seen to weep, either at the funeral rites, or at the grave of any of his connections, until indeed he lost the very last remaining one of his own legitimate sons, Paralus. </p><p>Even though he was bowed down at this stroke, he nevertheless tried to persevere in his habit and maintain his spiritual greatness, but as he laid a wreath upon the dead, he was vanquished by his anguish at the sight, so that he broke out into wailing, and shed a multitude of tears, although he had never done any such thing in all his life before. </p><p>[Section 36]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 18/</p><p>So Pericles tried to calm down those who were eager to fight, and who were in distress at what the enemy was doing, by saying that trees, though cut and lopped, grew quickly, but if men were destroyed it was not easy to get them again. </p><p>Like the helmsman of a ship, who, when a stormy wind swoops down upon it in the open sea, makes all fast, takes in sail, and exercises his skill, disregarding the tears and entreaties of the sea-sick and timorous passengers, so he shut the city up tight, put all parts of it under safe garrison, and exercised his own judgement, little heeding the brawlers and malcontents. </p><p>[Section 33]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 17/</p><p>Pericles did not accede to the vain impulses of the citizens, nor was he swept along with the tide when they were eager, from a sense of their great power and good fortune, to lay hands again upon Egypt and molest the realms of the King which lay along the sea. </p><p>Many also were possessed already with that inordinate and inauspicious passion for Sicily which was afterwards kindled into flame by such orators as Alcibiades. And some there were who actually dreamed of Tuscany and Carthage, and that not without a measure of hope, in view of the magnitude of their present supremacy and the full-flowing tide of success in their undertakings. </p><p>But Pericles was ever trying to restrain this extravagance of the citizens, to lop off their expansive meddlesomeness, and to divert the greatest part of their forces to the guarding and securing of what they had already won. </p><p>[Sections 20/21]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SelfSufficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfSufficiency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/StopTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a></p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 March 11th is a feast of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Hercules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hercules</span></a>. Statue of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> as <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Heracles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heracles</span></a> at the Paris Louvre. Hercules was married several times, but also had many male lovers, including <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/charioteer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>charioteer</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Iolaus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iolaus</span></a>. <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> says male couples would journey to Iolaus' tomb to swear an oath of devotion to each other. 🪷</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 16/</p><p>In his capacity as general, Pericles was famous above all things for his saving caution; he neither undertook of his own accord a battle involving much uncertainty or peril, nor did he envy and imitate those who took great risks, enjoyed brilliant good-fortune, and so were admired as great generals; and he was for ever saying to his fellow-citizens that, so far as lay in his power, they would remain alive forever and be immortals. </p><p>[Section 18]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SavingLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SavingLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Caution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SunTzu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SunTzu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheArtOfWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheArtOfWar</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/thegoodrulerrespectsandprotectshisfellowcitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thegoodrulerrespectsandprotectshisfellowcitizens</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 15/</p><p>And this was not the fruit of a golden moment, nor the culminating popularity of an administration that bloomed but for a season; nay rather he stood first for forty years among such men as Ephialtes, Leocrates, Myronides, Cimon, Tolmides, and Thucydides, and after the deposition of Thucydides and his ostracism, for no less than fifteen of these years did he secure an imperial sway that was continuous and unbroken, by means of his annual tenure of the office of general.</p><p>During all these years he kept himself untainted by corruption. </p><p>[Section 16]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 14/</p><p>For whereas all sorts of distempers, as was to be expected, were rife in a rabble which possessed such a vast empire, he alone was so endowed by nature that he could manage each one of these cases suitably, and more than anything else he used the people's hopes and fears, like rudders, so to speak, giving timely check to their arrogance, and allaying and comforting their despair. </p><p>The reason for his success was not his power as a speaker merely, but the reputation of his life and the confidence reposed in him as one who was manifestly proven to be utterly disinterested and superior to bribes.</p><p>[Section 15]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/heruledfirmlybutnotforhisownprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heruledfirmlybutnotforhisownprofit</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 13/ </p><p>To such degree, it seems, is truth hedged about with difficulty and hard to capture by research, since those who come after the events in question find that lapse of time is an obstacle to their proper perception of them; while the research of their contemporaries into men's deeds and lives, partly through envious hatred and partly through fawning flattery, defiles and distorts the truth. </p><p>[Section 13]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 12/<br> <br>For this reason are the works of Pericles all the more to be wondered at; they were created in a short time for all time. </p><p>Each one of them, in its beauty, was even then and at once antique; but in the freshness of its vigour it is, even to the present day, recent and newly wrought. </p><p>Such is the bloom of perpetual newness, as it were, upon these works of his, which makes them ever to look untouched by time, as though the unfaltering breath of an ageless spirit has been infused into them. </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Classicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Classicism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheGoldenAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGoldenAge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheBloomOfPerpetualNewness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBloomOfPerpetualNewness</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/atimewheneverythingcomesnaturallytous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atimewheneverythingcomesnaturallytous</span></a> </p><p>[Section 13]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 11/ </p><p>And it is true that deftness and speed in working do not impart to the work an abiding weight of influence nor an exactness of beauty; whereas the time which is put out to loan in laboriously creating, pays a large and generous interest in the preservation of the creation. </p><p>[Section 13] </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoHaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoHaste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DesignThatLasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesignThatLasts</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 10/ </p><p>And yet they say that once on a time when Agatharchus the painter was boasting loudly of the speed and ease with which he made his figures, Zeuxis heard him, and said, "Mine take, and last, a long time." </p><p>[Section 13]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoHaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoHaste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThingsThatLast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsThatLast</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 9/ </p><p>So then the works arose, no less towering in their grandeur than inimitable in the grace of their outlines, since the workmen eagerly strove to surpass themselves in the beauty of their handicraft. And yet the most wonderful thing about them was the speed with which they rose. Each one of them, men thought, would require many successive generations to complete it, but all of them were fully completed in the heyday of a single administration.</p><p>[Section 13]</p>
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