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Plutarch, Virtues Of Women, 243c

nan than by putting lives beside lives and actions beside actions, like great works of art, and considering whether the magnificence of Semiramis has the same character and pattern as that of Sesostris, or the intelligence of Tanaquil the same as that of Servius the king, or the high spirit of Porcia the same as that of Brutus, or that of Pelopidas the same as Timocleia's, when compared with due regard to the most important points of identity and influence. For the fact is that the virtues acquire certain other diversities, their own colouring as it were, due to varying natures, and they take on the likeness of the customs on which they are founded, and of the temperament of persons and their nurture and mode of living. For example, Achilles was brave in one way and Ajax in another;

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aeneas	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
aristotimos of elis	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
clelia	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
courage	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
courageous	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
ethos	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
gender (see also identity,stereotypes),equality	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
nicocrates	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
plutarch,mulierum virtutes	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
plutarch	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
rhome	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
rome	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
sexes,relationship between	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
tiber	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
trojans	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
violence	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
virtue	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
ἀνδρεία	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248
ἄνδρες'	Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 248