Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, chapter 32, section 5

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[5] This, however, is not what Homer does, but those acts which are natural, customary, and the result of reasoning, he attributes to our own volition, and he certainly says frequently:—

But I formed a plan within my lordly heart;¹

and also:—

So he spake, and Peleus' son was sore distressed, and his heart
Within his shaggy breast between two courses was divided;²

and again:—

But him no whit
Could she persuade from his integrity, the fiery hearted Bellerophon;³

1 Odyssey, ix. 299.

2 Iliad, i. 188 f.

3 Iliad, vi. 161 f.

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.

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