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Excerpt from Moralia: Index The sprawling collection of Plutarch's miscellaneous writ ings known as the Moralia is among our richest sources of otherwise unattested lore, anecdotes, quotations, informa tion, and ideas from the world of greco-roman antiquity. But access to its riches has long been hindered by lack of such familiar aids as a comprehensive index, lexicon, or concordance: the only such aid ever published was the ex haustive but now largely inaccessible index of Greek words that appeared in the final volume of the edition and com mentary by the Swiss scholar, Daniel Wyttenbach (oxford 1795 - 1830, repr. Leipzig 1796 It is true that each of the fifteen volumes of the Loeb edition contains its own index of names, and in some cases selected subjects as well, but none of these indexes gives information about the context of each item, and readers looking for information in all of the M oralia have had of course to consult all fifteen indexes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.