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Title: Plutarch's Lives, Volume II

Author: Aubrey Stewart & George Long

Release Date: November 22, 2004 [EBook #14114]

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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. II.

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

1899

[_Reprinted from Stereotype plates_.]

CONTENTS.

LIFE OF PELOPIDAS 1
LIFE OF MARCELLUS 34
COMPARISON OF PELOPIDAS WITH MARCELLUS 64
LIFE OF ARISTEIDES 67
LIFE OF MARCUS CATO 98
COMPARISON OF ARISTEIDES AND CATO 128
LIFE OF PHILOPOEMEN 134
LIFE OF TITUS FLAMININUS 154
COMPARISON OF PHILOPOEMEN AND TITUS 177
LIFE OF PYRRHUS 180
LIFE OF CAIUS MARIUS (_By G. Long_.) 221
LIFE OF LYSANDER 285
LIFE OF SULLA (_By G. Long_.) 317
COMPARISON OF LYSANDER AND SULLA 386
LIFE OF KIMON 391
LIFE OF LUCULLUS (_By G. Long_.) 414
COMPARISON OF KIMON AND LUCULLUS 483

PLUTARCH'S LIVES.

LIFE OF PELOPIDAS.

I. Cato the elder, speaking to some persons who were praising a man of
reckless daring and audacity in war, observed that there is a
difference between a man's setting a high value on courage, and
setting a low value on his own life--and rightly. For a daring soldier
in the army of Antigonus, but of broken and ill health, being asked by
the king the reason of his paleness, confessed that he was suffering
from some secret disorder. When