Plutarch Lives, II: Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus 0674990536, 9780674990531

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AND CATO MAJOR CIMON AND LUCULLUS

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PLUTARCH

(Plutarchus, c. A.D. 45iio, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at to Rome as a Athens, and, after

coming

teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuraGreece by Hadrian. Married torship in and four sons, and father of one

daughter he appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought. Studious and learned, he wrote on many subjects. Most

been the 46 Parallel popular have always to be ethical Lives, biographies planned in pairs (in each pair one Greek

examples similar Roman), though person and one the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen or soldiers or orators. Plutarch's other varied extant works, about

many 60

in

Essays'

number, are known as 'Moral or 'Moral Works'. They are of

besides being of great high literary value, use to people interested in philosophy, ethics

and religion.

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PLUTARCH'S LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

BERNADOTTE PERRIN IN

ELEVEN VOLUMES II

THEMISTOCLES AND CAMILLUS ARISTIDES AND CATO MAJOR CIMON AND LUCULLUS

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CONTENTS PAGE

PREFATORY NOTE

vii

ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN THIS EDITION TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES THEMISTOCLES

.

ix

....

x

.

1

CAMILLUS

93

ARISTIDES

209

MARCUS CATO

301

COMPARISON OF ARISTIDES AND CATO

384

CIMON

403

LCCULLUS

469

COMPARISON OF CIMON AND LUCULLUS

610

DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES

623

,

PREFATORY NOTE As

in

the

between the

volume of

first

this series,

agreement

(Teubner, 1873-1875) and 1855-1857) texts of the Parallel

Sintenis

Bekker (Tauclmitz, has been taken as the

Lives

Any preference

basis

for

the text.

one to the other where they

of

and any departure from both, have been indicated. The more important ameliorations of the differ,

by collations of Codex and Codex Seitenstettensis (S),

text which have been secured Parisinus 1676 (F

a

)

The relative importance of explained in the Introduction to the No attempt has been made, naturally,

have been introduced. these first

MSS.

is

volume.

to furnish either a diplomatic text or a full critical

apparatus.

The reading which

the critical notes

and

also, unless

is

follows the colon in

that of the Teubner Sintenis,

otherwise stated in the note, of

the Tauchnitz Bekker.

Among

editions of special Lives included in this

volume should be noted that of Fuhr, Thendstokles und Perikles,

Berlin,

1880,

in

the

Haupt-Sauppe vii

PREFATORY NOTE series of

und

annotated texts

;

that of Blass, Thennstokles

Perikles, Leipzig, 1883, in

annotated texts

;

Cato, Leipzig, 1898, in the

editions bring

the Teubner series of

and the same

Fa and S

a basis for the text.

editor's Aristides und

same

series.

All these

into rightful

prominence as This has been done also by

Holden, in his edition of the Themistocles (Macmillan, 1892).

The

and have already appeared in my " Plutarch's Themistocles and Aristides" (New York, 1901), and " "Plutarch's Cimon and Pericles (New York, 1910), translations of the Themistocles, Aristides,

Cimon

and are reproduced here (with only

slight changes) of the consent the publishers, the generous by The translations Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.

of the Camillus, Cato, and Lucullus appear here for All the standard translations of the the first time. Lives have

been carefully compared aud

utilised,

including that of the Lucullus by Professor Long. B.

NEW

HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, U.S.A. February, 1914.

Vlll

PERRIN.

ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN THIS EDITION IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF THE GREEK LIVES. VOLUME (1)

(2)

(3)

VOLUME (4)

VOLUME

I.

Theseus and Romulus. Comparison. Lycurgus and Numa. Comparison. Solon and Publicola. Comparison. II.

Themistocles and

(22) (7)

Paulus.

Comparison.

VOLUME

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(17)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

VOLUME Pericles

Comparison. Phocion and Cato the Younger.

(21)

VOLUME IX. Demetrius and Antony. Comparison. PyrrhusandCaiusMarius.

III.

and Fabius Max-

imus.

Comparison. (14)

Nicias and Crassus.

(11)

Comparison.

VOLUME (6)

IV.

(19)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

Comparison. (12)

VIII.

and Eumenes.

(18)

Cimon and Lucullus. Comparison.

(5)

VOLUME (15) Sertorius

Comparison. (13)

VII.

(20)

Camillus. (9)

VI.

Dion and Brutus. Comparison. Timoleon and Aemilius

Lysander and Sulla. Comparison.

(10)

VOLUME X. Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. Comparison. Philopoemen and Flamininus.

Comparison.

VOLUME V. (16) Agesilaiis (8)

and Pompey.

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellua. Comparison.

VOLUME

XI.

(24) Aratus. (23) Artaxerxes. (25) Galba. (26) Otho.

IX

THE TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES. (1)

Theseus and Romulus.

(2)

Lycurgus and Numa.

(3)

Solon and Publicola.

(4)

Themistocles and Camillus.

and Fabius Maximus.

(5)

Pericles

(6)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

(7)

Timoleon and Aemilius Paulua.

(8)

Pelopidas and Marcellus.

(9)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(10)

(11)

(12) (13)

Philopoemen and Flamininus. Pyrrhus and Caius Marius. Lysander and Sulla.

Cimon and Lucullus. and Crassus.

(14) Nicias

(15) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

(16) Agesilaiis

and Pompey

(17)

Alexander and Julius Caesar.

(19)

Phocion and Cato the Younger. Tiberius and Caius Agis and Cleomenes, and

(20)

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(21)

Demetrius and Antony.

(22)

Dion and Brutus.

(18)

Gracchus.

(23) Artaxerxes. (24) Aratus.

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(25)

Galba.

(26)

Otho.

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