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the roamer<p>Reflections on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Classicism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheGoldenAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGoldenAge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheBloomOfPerpetualNewness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBloomOfPerpetualNewness</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/atimewheneverythingcomesnaturallytous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoHaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoHaste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DesignThatLasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DesignThatLasts</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoHaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoHaste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThingsThatLast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsThatLast</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 8/ </p><p>Now there had been from the beginning a sort of seam hidden beneath the surface of affairs, as in a piece of iron, which faintly indicated a divergence between the popular and the aristocratic programme; but the emulous ambition of these two men cut a deep gash in the state, and caused one section of it to be called the "Demos," or the People, and the other the "Oligoi," or the Few. </p><p>[Section 11]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 5/ </p><p>In his funeral oration over those who had fallen in the Samian War, he declared that they had become immortal, like the gods. </p><p>"The gods themselves," he said, "we cannot see, but from the honours which they receive, and the blessings which they bestow, we conclude that they are immortal." So it was, he said, with those who had given their lives for their country. </p><p>[Section 8]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 4/ </p><p>The truth is that even Pericles, with all his gifts, was cautious in his discourse, so that whenever he came forward to speak he prayed the gods that there might not escape him unawares a single word which was unsuited to the matter under discussion. In writing he left nothing behind him except the decrees which he proposed, and only a few in all of his memorable sayings are preserved.</p><p>[Section 8]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 3/</p><p>And so it was that Pericles, seeking to avoid the satiety which springs from continual intercourse, made his approaches to the people by intervals, as it were, not speaking on every question, nor addressing the people on every occasion, but offering himself like the Salaminian trireme, as Critolaüs says, for great emergencies. The rest of his policy he carried out by commissioning his friends and other public speakers. </p><p>[Section 7]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/reserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reserve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PowerThroughReserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerThroughReserve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoMeddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMeddling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BeTheTrireme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeTheTrireme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/letyourfriendsactonyourbehalf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>letyourfriendsactonyourbehalf</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 2/ </p><p>These two men [Pericles and Fabius Maximus] were alike in their virtues, and more especially in their gentleness and rectitude, and by their ability to endure the follies of their peoples and of their colleagues in office, they proved of the greatest service to their countries.</p><p>[Section 2]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virtue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leadership</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 1/ </p><p>It is fitting that man pursue what is best, to the end that he may not merely regard it, but also be edified by regarding it. </p><p>Virtuous action straightway so disposes a man that he no sooner admires the works of virtue than he strives to emulate those who wrought them. The good things of Fortune we love to possess and enjoy; those of Virtue we long to perform. </p><p>The Good creates a stir of activity towards itself, and implants at once in the spectator an active impulse; it does not form his character by ideal representation alone, but through the investigation of its work it furnishes him with a dominant purpose. <br> <br>[from Sections 1&amp;2]</p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pericles*.html" rel="nofollow noopener" 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/Pericles*.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VirtueBringsOutVirtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VirtueBringsOutVirtue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 11/ </p><p>"Yes we have left behind us our houses and city walls, not accepting to be in subjection for the sake of such lifeless things; but we still have a city, the greatest in Hellas, our 200 ships, which are ready to aid you if you choose to be saved by them." </p><p>"But if you betray us for the second time, many a Hellene will learn that the Athenians have won for themselves a city that is free and a territory that is far better than the one they cast aside."</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 10/ </p><p>When the entire city was thus putting out to sea, the sight provoked pity in some, and in others astonishment at the hardihood of the step; for they were sending off their families in one direction, while they themselves, unmoved by the lamentations and tears and embraces of their loved ones, were crossing over to the island where the enemy was to be fought.</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 9/ </p><p>Then the Athenians were seized alike with rage at this betrayal, and with sullen dejection at their utter isolation. </p><p>As to the only thing left them to do in their emergency, namely, to give up their city and stick to their ships, most of them were distressed at the thought, saying that they neither wanted victory nor understood what safety could mean if they abandoned to the enemy the shrines of their gods and the sepulchres of their fathers.</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 8/</p><p>For verily the foundation of victory is courage. </p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Themistocles*.html" rel="nofollow noopener" 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/Themistocles*.html</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 7/ </p><p>They were taught by actual achievements in the face of danger that neither multitudes of ships nor brilliantly decorated figure-heads nor boastful shouts or barbarous battle-hymns have any terror for men who know how to come to close quarters and dare to fight there; </p><p>but that they must despise all such things, rush upon the very persons of their foes, grapple with them, and fight it out to the bitter end.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/courage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/HowToDefendFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowToDefendFreedom</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 6/ </p><p>In his ambition he surpassed all men. For instance, while he was still young and obscure, he prevailed upon Epicles of Hermione, a harpist who was eagerly sought after by the Athenians, to practise at his house, because he was ambitious that many should seek out his dwelling and come often to see him.</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 5/ </p><p>Themistocles carried his point, not by trying to terrify the citizens with dreadful pictures of Darius or the Persians ---these were too far away and inspired no very serious fear of their coming, but by making opportune use of the bitter jealousy which they cherished toward Aegina in order to secure the armament he desired.</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 4/</p><p>Now the rest of his countrymen thought that the defeat of the Barbarians at Marathon was the end of the war; but Themistocles thought it to be only the beginning of greater contests, and for these he anointed himself, as it were, to be the champion of all Hellas, and put his city into training, because, while it was yet afar off, he expected the evil that was to come. </p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Themistocles*.html" rel="nofollow noopener" 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/Themistocles*.html</span></a></p>
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