Monday, October 13, 2014

 

The Pleasantest Things

Plutarch, On Superstition 9 = Moralia 169 d (tr. Frank Cole Babbitt):
The pleasantest things that men enjoy are festal days and banquets at the temples, initiations and mystic rites, and prayer and adoration of the gods.

ἣδιστα δὲ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἑορταὶ καὶ εἰλαπίναι πρὸς ἱεροῖς καὶ μυήσεις καὶ ὀργιασμοὶ καὶ κατευχαὶ θεῶν καὶ προσκυνήσεις.
Related post: Holidays.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:19 AM


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