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Plutarch, On Praising Oneself Inoffensively, 543e

nan those who reject what is false and vain. Hence those kings who were unwilling to be proclaimed a god or son of a god, but rather Philadelphus or Philometor or Euergetes or Theophiles, were ungrudgingly honoured by those who gave them these noble yet human titles. So again, while men resent the writers and speakers who assume the epithet "wise," they are delighted with those who say that they love wisdom or are advancing in merit, or put forward some other such moderate and inoffensive claim. Whereas the rhetorical sophist

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alexandria,philos perspective on	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
alexandria	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
aristeas,letter of	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
arsinoe ii	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
cleopatra vii	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
greek,language	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
julius caesar	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
memory,cultural	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
moses,in philos life of moses	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
philo of alexandria	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
philos perspective	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
plutarch	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
ptolemy ii philadelphus,in philos life of moses	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
ptolemy ii philadelphus	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
septuagint (lxx)	Salvesen et al (2020) 235
sibling-marriage'	Salvesen et al (2020) 235