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Title: Plutarch's Lives Volume III.

Author: Plutarch

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PLUTARCH'S LIVES.

Translated from the Greek

WITH

_NOTES AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH_.

BY

AUBREY STEWART, M.A.,
_Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge_,

AND THE LATE

GEORGE LONG, M.A.,
_Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge_,.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN,
AND NEW YORK.

1892.

LONDON:

REPRINTED FROM THE STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WM. CLOWES & SONS, LTD.,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS.

LIFE OF NIKIAS 1
LIFE OF CRASSUS (_By G. Long_.) 36
COMPARISON OF NIKIAS AND CRASSUS 89
LIFE OF SERTORIUS (_By G. Long_.) 94
LIFE OF EUMENES 130
COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS AND EUMENES 150
LIFE OF AGESILAUS 152
LIFE OF POMPEIUS (_By G. Long_.) 195
COMPARISON OF AGESILAUS AND POMPEIUS 295
LIFE OF ALEXANDER 300
LIFE OF C. CAESAR (_By G. Long_.) 379
LIFE OF PHOKION 466
LIFE OF CATO (_By G. Long_.) 500

PLUTARCH'S LIVES.

LIFE OF NIKIAS.

As it appears to me that the life of Nikias forms a good parallel to
that of Crassus, and that the misfortunes of the former in Sicily may
be well compared with those of the latter in Parthia, I must beg of my
readers to believe that in writing upon a subject which has been
described by Thucydides with inimitable grace, clearness, and pathos,
I have no ambition to imitate Timaeus, who, when writing his history,
hoped to surpass Thucydides himself in eloquence, and to show that
Philistius was but an ignorant bungler, and