Plutarch on the Delay of the Divine Justice

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TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES.
BY ANDREW P. PEABODY.
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1885.
Copyright, 1885 , By Andrew P. Peabody.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

§ 1. The dialogue opens with comments on the cavils against the Divine Providence by a person who is supposed to have just departed.
2. The alleged encouragement to the guilty by the delay of punishment, while the sufferers by the guilt of others are disheartened by failing to see the wrong-doers duly punished.
3. The guilty themselves, it is said, do not recognize punishment when it comes late, but think it mere misfortune.