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Quotation from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch
“The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars”
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Theseus, trans. John Dryden et al., rev. A. H. Clough (1864)
The ship preserved by the Athenians, whose planks were replaced one by one, became the philosophers’ example of a thing that changes and stays the same.
Citation: "The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars" — Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Theseus, trans. John Dryden et al., rev. A. H. Clough (1864). (id plutarch-lives-q11)
