Sometimes one of them will follow along on the iPod, reading the prose (and more contemporary in style) translation on the Classics app.

For Plutarch, we’re using the super-rich John Dryden translation. It’s slow going but we kind of like the puzzling-out it involves: what the heck is he saying? I find that the effort of “translating” facilitates discussion—gets us diving in and talking about the text, practically sentence by sentence.