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Excerpt: Plutarch?s Lives -- Volume One. translated by Arthur Hugh Clough.

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...c Classics Series Publication tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pennsylvania S... ...................................................... 914 914 914 914 914 5 Plutarch’s Lives Plutarch’s Lives Volume One T T T T Translated b ranslated... ...rt come again. Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity 7 Plutarch’s Lives of the oracle, prevailed upon him, it is uncertain whether... ...red to Lydia, and for a long time was there slave to Omphale, a punish- 9 Plutarch’s Lives ment which he had imposed upon himself for the murder, the... ...t, with a kick to send them down the rock into the sea. The writers of 11 Plutarch’s Lives Megara, however, in contradiction to the received report, ... ...om among the people of the township of Pallene to have no marriages or 13 Plutarch’s Lives any alliance with the people of Agnus, nor to suffer the c... ... that he, who was the cause of all their miseries, was the only person 15 Plutarch’s Lives exempt from the punishment; adopting and settling his king... ...mself, very ambitiously, and beginning a great way back: That it was a 17 Plutarch’s Lives decree consented to by all Greece, that no vessel from any...

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Excerpt: Plutarch?s Lives -- Volume Two. translated by Arthur Hugh Clough.

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...c Classics Series Publication tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pennsylvania S... ...................................................................... 832 5 Plutarch’s Lives Plutarch’s Lives Volume T wo T T T T Translated b ranslate... ...anguage req- uisite for common intercourse, he threw himself in amongst 7 Plutarch’s Lives the barbarians; where having carefully seen with his own e... ... victori- ous, that there remained little to be done, and that, if they 9 Plutarch’s Lives admitted Marius, he would deprive them of the glory and ad... ...edily come against him, and therefore sent away Julius Salinator imme- 11 Plutarch’s Lives diately, with six thousand men fully armed, to fortify and... ... memory of Antaeus. The Africans tell that after the death of Antaeus, 13 Plutarch’s Lives his wife Tinga lived with Hercules, and had a son by him c... ...the good account they should soon receive of their prosperous success. 15 Plutarch’s Lives By such practices, he brought them to be more tractable an... ...filled with water, naming a considerable sum of money for the carriage 17 Plutarch’s Lives of every skin; and many Spaniards and Moors undertaking th...

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...hue and quality are us?d against melancholy, sowr against sowr, salt to remove salt humours. Hence Philosophers and other gravest Writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out of Tragic Poets, both to adorn and illustrate thir discourse....

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... salt humours. Hence Philoso- phers and other gravest Writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out of Tragic Poets, both to adorn a...

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...in the First Folio), though some scholars have placed it with the problem comedies despite the death of its title character. Source material includes Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades and Lucian's dialogue, Timon the Misanthrope. The play had not been published prior to its inclusion in the First Folio (1623)....

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...e surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longe...

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... surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longe...

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...ted Babylonian priests to exorcise the demons that may have possessed him. Plutarch calls him "disturbed". He describes extreme mood swings that to... ... military engineer. So do historians who relied on such accounts: Diodorus, Plutarch, Arrian, and the anonymous author of "Historia Alexandri Magni"...

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...al School. The style of these books is fluent, and the Greek reminds one of Plutarch and Thucydides, and although Sextus does not claim originality,... ... on Scepticism. [7] Favorinus wrote a book entitled Pyrrhonean Tropes, and Plutarch one called The Ten (τόποι) Topes of Pyrrho. [8] Both of these ...

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...who else, but either in parte of Plato and Aristotle out of many; Tullie, Plutarch, Plinie out of Plato, Aristotle and many; or of purpose, as all s... ...e, and must ever be stored with some object, on which it light and worke. Plutarch saith fitly of those affectionate themselves to Monkies and little... ...of arrowes to draw God to some reason. Now, as saith that ancient Poet in Plutarch, Point ne se faut corroucer aux affaires, Il ne leur chaut de to... ...sideration of valour, and difference betweene this virtue and others. But Plutarch having often spoken of this matter, it were in vaine here for me ... ...nvince the conception and publike designs alike. I will have them to give Plutarch a bob upon mine own lips, and vex themselves in wronging Seneca in... ...on a hill by the sea shore, which ever since hath beene named by him. And Plutarch (as himselfe saith) made it a matter of conscience, in hope of a ... ...e, as Anaxagoras did? And there in to plant habitations, and as Plato and Plutarch doe, erect their colonies for our use. And to make of our knowne ... ...r imagine but according to his capacity. It is greater presumption (saith Plutarch in them that are but men, to attempt to reason and discourse of Go... ... things I have some aires or motives of the sottish bashfulnesse, whereof Plutarch speaketh; and the course of my life hath diversly beene wounded a...

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...HE PAST 400 many of my plays were crutched. I borrowed too much from Plutarch and oth- ers. I worshipped royalty. I was too conventional, too ro...

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...as lip service. Do you know how rare even that is in any written language? Plutarch attempted to do this in his Lives of the Romans: where he det... ...s no different from any other form of ancestor worship in any other culture. Plutarch was more circumspect. His Perfect Roman was not dead yet: so...

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...re likely to derive from it, being well aware that you do not need to have Plutarch and his companions inter- preted to you—but it is possible that Ma... ...iselle de Montaigne, my Wife.—[Printed as a preface to the “Consolation of Plutarch to his Wife,” pub. fished by Montaigne, with several other tracts ... ...articu- larly intimate you, I send you the Consolatory Letter writ- ten by Plutarch to his Wife, translated by him into French; regretting much that f... ... it was your lot to lose her in the second year of her age. But I leave to Plutarch the duty of comforting you, acquainting you with your duty herein,... ...he whole assembly highly com- mending the high courage of this personage.—[Plutarch, How far a Man may praise Himself, c. 5.] Dionysius the elder, aft... ... the single account of the virtue and magna- nimity of one citizen, Zeno,—[Plutarch calls him Stheno, and also Sthemnus and Sthenis]—who took the faul... ... punishment for all: and yet Sylla’s host, having in the city of Perugia —[Plutarch says Preneste, a town of Latium.]—manifested the same virtue, obta... ...sured that which he had before very doubtfully gained over the Boeotians.—[Plutarch, Life of Nicias, c. ii.; Life of Agesilaus, c. vi.] These things m... ...d therefore always requires an object at which to aim, and whereon to act. Plutarch says of those who are delighted with little dogs and monkeys, that...

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...r it is permissible in a man of honour to say, as the Lacedaemonians did,—[Plutarch, Dif- ference between a Flatterer and a Friend, c. 21.]—having bee... ... that it is a beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd.—[Plutarch, On the Plurality of Friends, c. 2.]—And also I have a natural dif... ...find grasshoppers leave behind them in sum- mer.”—Lucretius, v. 801.] Even Plutarch himself laments his daughter for the little apish tricks of her in... ...s, as they who are too frequent in her rites.”—A translation by Amyot from Plutarch, A philosopher should converse with princes.] “T u, dea, re... ... in other bashfulness whereof altogether in things some air of the foolish Plutarch makes mention; and the course of my life has been divers ways hurt... ...II conditions, as the head is of all their members. Pittacus used to say,—[Plutarch, On Contentment, c. II.]—that every one had his trouble, and that ... ...f, and he must have them more than ordinary, because his conception is so. Plutarch says’ that he sees the Latin tongue by the things: ’tis here the s... ...er, be satiated with some other ill musicians. But I can hardly be without Plutarch; he is so universal and so full, that upon all occasions, and what... ...the first appearing hairs of adolescence ‘Aristogitons’ and ‘Harmodiuses’—[Plutarch, On Love, c.34.]—is sufficiently 127 Montaigne known. I find it i...

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... of whom we know next to nothing—except by the quotations of Athenaeus and Plutarch, and the Greek gram- marians who cited them to support a dictum—in... ...s, his po- sition as chief of the comic poets of his age was unchallenged. Plutarch very unnecessarily drags Aristophanes into a com- parison with him... ...dealt in, and the times, were quite dis- similar. But it is no wonder that Plutarch, writing when Athe- nian beauty of style was the delight of his pa...

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...I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch’s Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter. The possession of these trea... ... tions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. “The volume of Plutarch’s Lives which I possessed con tained the histories of the first... ...s of Werter. I learned from Werter’s imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched spher...

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... honor of taking it. I present my respects to you. Chesnel.” “He is one of Plutarch’s men,” Victurnien said to himself, as he tossed the letter on the... ...his wishes in a few hours. The simplicity of his life was worthy of one of Plutarch’s men. In the evening he looked over his cases; next morning he wo...

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...wixt, The darts were in the cover fixed, Or often blunted and recoiled, On Plutarch’s morals struck, were spoiled. The queen of wisdom could foresee, ...

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...n, and whole ranks of ladies stood round, one of them reading aloud one of Plutarch’s Lives. The Queen came forward, with the most perfect grace, cryi... ...e, as they were called, who, like Clement Darpent, had read their Livy and Plutarch, were full of ideas of public virtue, and had meetings among thems... ...ime, a doubt which she appreciated, looking on him as equal to any hero in Plutarch’s lives. Our brother De Solivet met us, and conducted into Amiens,... ...younger than himself knew more than he did. Our boy was reading Virgil and Plutarch’s lives. He told the stories to the young King, who delighted to l...

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... hastens on To the place where his path comes up to the path Of a child of Plutarch and Shakespeare. O Lincoln, actor indeed, playing well your part A...

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...ares to have found a king and several priests a fishing. And he that reads Plutarch, shall find, that Angling was not contemptible in the days of Mark... ...en striking at the line, to break it off, with his tail; as is observed by Plutarch, in his book De Industria Animalium: and also so cunning, to nibbl...