Plutarch severely criticizes the opinion on fortune held by both the Stoics and the Epicureans, and – while referring to both positions as ideological extremes – repeatedly hints at the Tyche seen as a force operating in op¬position to man’s virtues. He thus reconnects with the Peripatetic doctrine, and often quotes Menander, who also studies the way fortune affects the attitudes of his characters. In particular, two quotations from Menan¬der (at De fort. Rom. 318D and Quaest. conv. 3.6, 654D) deserve special attention, not least in view of their im-portance for establishing Plutarch’s own text.