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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 21/

Fabius, however, was not buried by the Romans at the public charge, but each private citizen contributed the smallest coin in his possession, not because Fabius's poverty called for their aid, but because the people felt that they were burying a father, whose death thus received honour and regard befitting his life.

[Section 27]

#respect

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 20/

The son of Fabius, as it happened, died, and this affliction Fabius bore with equanimity, like a wise man and a good father.

[Section 24]

#SometimesTheAncientsSeemSoDistantToUs

#HowNotToMourn

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 19/

Fabius thought it hard that, whereas the trainers of horses and dogs relied upon care and intimacy and feeding rather than on goads and heavy collars for the removal of the animal's obstinacy, anger, and discontent, the commander of men should not base the most of his discipline on kindness and gentleness, but show more harshness and violence in his treatment of them than farmers in their treatment of wild fig-trees, wild pear-trees, and wild olive-trees, which they reclaim and domesticate till they bear luscious olives, pears, and figs.

[Section 20]

#LeadingThroughKindness #MangageByAppreciation #AppreciativeInquiry

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 1/

It was a nymph, they say, or a woman native to the country, according to others, who consorted with Hercules by the river Tiber, and became by him the mother of Fabius, the founder of the family of the Fabii, which was a large one, and of high repute in Rome. [...]

This family produced many great men, and from Rullus, the greatest of them, and on this account called Maximus by the Romans, the Fabius Maximus of whom we now write was fourth in descent.

[Section 1]

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html

#nymphs #WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 1/

It was a nymph, they say, or a woman native to the country, according to others, who consorted with Hercules by the river Tiber, and became by him the mother of Fabius, the founder of the family of the Fabii, which was a large one, and of high repute in Rome. [...]

This family produced many great men, and from Rullus, the greatest of them, and on this account called Maximus by the Romans, the Fabius Maximus of whom we now write was fourth in descent.

[Section 1]

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html

#nymphs #WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 1/

It was a nymph, they say, or a woman native to the country, according to others, who consorted with Hercules by the river Tiber, and became by him the mother of Fabius, the founder of the family of the Fabii, which was a large one, and of high repute in Rome. [...]

This family produced many great men, and from Rullus, the greatest of them, and on this account called Maximus by the Romans, the Fabius Maximus of whom we now write was fourth in descent.

[Section 1]

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html

#nymphs #WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 1/

It was a nymph, they say, or a woman native to the country, according to others, who consorted with Hercules by the river Tiber, and became by him the mother of Fabius, the founder of the family of the Fabii, which was a large one, and of high repute in Rome. [...]

This family produced many great men, and from Rullus, the greatest of them, and on this account called Maximus by the Romans, the Fabius Maximus of whom we now write was fourth in descent.

[Section 1]

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html

#nymphs #WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 1/

It was a nymph, they say, or a woman native to the country, according to others, who consorted with Hercules by the river Tiber, and became by him the mother of Fabius, the founder of the family of the Fabii, which was a large one, and of high repute in Rome. [...]

This family produced many great men, and from Rullus, the greatest of them, and on this account called Maximus by the Romans, the Fabius Maximus of whom we now write was fourth in descent.

[Section 1]

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html

#nymphs #WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs