The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls

As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Seythian ice, or frozen sea, so, in this great work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off, Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions; the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther.

正如地理学家在他们地图的边缘挤满了他们不知道的世界的部分，并在边缘添加注释，表明在这些之外只有沙漠、野兽、无法接近的沼泽、西徐亚的冰或冰冻的海洋，所以，在我这伟大的作品中，我已经比较了最伟大的人的生活，在那些通过概率推理可以达到和真实历史找到立足点的时期之后，我可能会非常恰当地说，那些更远的地方，除了奇迹和虚构之外，别无他物；唯一的居民是诗人和寓言的发明者；没有信任，或确定性。

Theseus seemed to me to resemble Romulus in many particulars. Both of them had the repute of being sprung from the gods.

在我看来，忒修斯似乎在许多方面与罗慕路斯相似。他们俩都有被神化的声誉。