Plutarch, Theseus, chapter 1, section 2

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[2] But after publishing my account of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king, I thought I might not unreasonably go back still farther to Romulus, now that my history had brought me near his times. And as I asked myself,

‘With such a warrior’ (as Aeschylus says) ‘who will dare to fight?’

¹

Whom shall I set against him? Who is competent?

² it seemed to me that I must make the founder of lovely and famous Athens the counterpart and parallel to the father of invincible and glorious Rome.

1 The actual text in Aeschylus:‘τοιῷδε φωτὶ πέμπε—τίς ξυστήσεται;’

2 The actual text in Aechylus:‘τίν᾽ ἀντιτάξεις τῷδε; τίς Προίτου πυλῶν ι κλῄθρων λυθέντων προστατεῖν φερέγγυος:’

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.

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