The Classical Quarterly (New Series)

Table of Contents - 1956 - Volume 6, Issue 1-2  

Articles

Three Notes on Plutarch's Moralia

F. H. Sandbagha1

a1 Trinity College, Cambridge

In C.Q., N.S. iv (1954), 60 Mr. D. A. Russell makes several suggestions on the text of Plutarch's de genio Socratis. In one passage he appears to me to misdirect his suspicions:

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