Hi,
I'm working on a translation and I need help finding a reference about Plutarch mentioned by he author of the book that I'm working with. I don't know if it is talking about Plutarch the philosopher or a theater work maybe (please be kind to me):
Many will confeſs leſſer fins, and yetconceal greater; like the Patient in Plutarch,that complained to his Phyſician of his fingerwhen his Liver was rotten.
The "Patient in Plutarch"... I made a library search in the perseus collection but wasn't able to find something. I have read of others that said that they have more that 400 books pointing to Plutarch in the perseus collection but Logos tells me that I only have 194 resources with Plutarch as the author.
By the way I ask here because I don't know where else to go. Do you know of any other forum where I can ask this kind of questions. I tried to get in to the Puritan Board Forum but my application was rejected... yikes!
Edil, not sure if this helps, but looks like it is a reference that Plutarch made about a certain physician and his patient here;
"As Philotimus the physician, visiting a patient of his who was troubled with an inflammation in his liver, but showed him his forefinger, told him: Sir, your distemper is not a whitlow."
Plutarch, Plutarch’s Morals., ed. Goodwin, vol. 2 (Medford, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874), 153.
In my library, it shows up as a Perseus title as "Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur (English)"
Again, not sure if I helped you are not.
I agree with David, just googling it.
But I was impressed that Plutarch showed up similarly in Thayer's ὑπομονή.
Wow!
Thank you very much. I found the resource in Logos but just because you point me in the right direction. I would had never find it by my own. Actually I have it listed twice. Please you have to tell me now how you did it. When you have the resource open is easy to do a "find" for any of the words... finger, liver, patient... within the book but I tried the library search and was not able to find it.
You can choose to search all resources in your library tagged with Plutarch as the author- use author:plutarch and then select the number of matching resources
Then search for two relevant words that appear relatively near to each other - you can adjust the separation as required
I have trouble with search.... here's what my screen looks like when I try to search for plutarch.
It shows all texts instead of all passages... does that make a difference? I need to spend a day and actually study search through I guess....
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
I have yet to come to understand the search in Logos... here's a pic of what I get... Instead of all passages,,, I get all texts... probably not the same???
xnman I'm with you. What Graham says is exactly what I did but just using one of the words, this is what I got:
And then only one resource was listed
Edil: And then only one resource was listed
In this selection, where Amatorius is selected as default, you need to click on the row above that says "364 resources with author:plutarch", then it will work as Graham showed.
Running Logos 9 latest (beta) version on Win 10
Thank you, there we go...
By the way I like the english style in the second resource better. This has all been very good and I feel better because my question, at the end, was related to Logos. Now I have to translate that portion for the book that I'm working with.
Thanks
xnman:I have yet to come to understand the search in Logos... here's a pic of what I get... Instead of all passages,,, I get all texts... probably not the same???
You have selected All Documents - which are docs you have created such as Clippings, Notes, etc.
As they don't have Passage indices, you just get the text option.
Thanks. One of these days.... I hope I'll be able to say.... "I know something..." lol
Sorry but I have to ask one more question. Look what happens when I paste the text copied from the book:
"The physician Philotimus, on an occasion, when a man with an ulcerated liver showed him his finger with a whitlow on it, said, ‘My friend, you need not concern yourself about a sore finger."Plutarch. (1927). Moralia. (F. C. Babbitt, Ed.) (Vol. 1, p. 387). Medford, MA: Harvard University Press.
The name of the book is [Quomodo Adulator Ab Amico Internoscatur] but Logos says that the reference is [Moralia]. What's the correct source? What I'm missing?
Edil:The name of the book is [Quomodo Adulator Ab Amico Internoscatur] but Logos says that the reference is [Moralia]. What's the correct source? What I'm missing?
Unfortunately it looks as though this is how the information was provided from Perseus (the supplier of these resources) - as per https://community.logos.com/forums/t/39182.aspx
Ok I understand but, is correct for me to say that the author is citing Plutarch's work Quamodo Adulator..., instead of Moralia?