Plutarch's Lives: Sertorius and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger [8] 0674991117, 9780674991118

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PLUTARCH'S LIVES vin SERTORIUS AND EUMENES PHOCION

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SERTORIUS AND EUMENES PHOCION AND CATO THE YOUNGER

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CONTENTS PAOB

PREFATORY NOTE

ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES

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IN THIS EDITION

TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES SERTORIUS

EUMEXE9

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ix

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77

COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS AND EUMENES

137

PHOCION

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CATO THE YOUNGER

235

DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES

413

V

PREFATORY NOTE As

in

the preceding volumes of this series, agree-

ment between the

Sintenis (Teubner, 1873-1875) and Bekker (Tauchnitz, 1855 1857) editions of the Parallel Lives has been taken as the basis for the

preference of one to the other, and any important departure from both, have been indicated. An abridged account of the manuscripts of Plutarch text.

Any

may be found in the Introduction to the first volume. None of the Lives presented in this volume are contained in the two oldest anJ. best manuscripts

Codex Sangermanensis stettensis

(S), or in

No. 167G (F

a ).

(S=)

the

and the Codex Seiten-

the excellent Paris manuscript

Their text therefore rests principally

on the Paris manuscripts Nos. 1671, 1673, and 1674 (ACD). No attempt has been made, naturally, to furnish either a diplomatic text or a full critical apparatus.

For these, the reader must be referred to

the major edition of Sintenis (Leipzig, 1839-1846, 4 voll., 8vo), or to the rather inaccessible text of the Lives by Liiidskog and Ziegler, in the Teubner vi

PREFATORY NOTE Library of Greek and Latin texts (Vol.

III., Fasc.

I.

was published in 1915). In the present edition, the reading which follows the colon in the brief critical

notes

is

that of the

also, unless otherwise

Teubner

stated in

the

Sintenis,

and

note, of the

Tauchnitz Bekker. All the standard translations

of the Lives have

been carefully compared and utilized, including those of the Sertorius and Cato by Professor Long. B.

NEW HAVEN,

PERRIN.

CONNECTICUT, U.S.A.

October. 1919.

VII

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)

Paulas.

VOLUME

Cimon and

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(17)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

(5)

Pericles

Lucullus. (18)

Younger.

(21)

Comparison. Nicias and Crassus.

(11)

Comparison.

(6)

VOLUME IX. Demetrius and Antony. Comparison. Pyrrlms and Cains Mari us. VOLUME X.

IV.

(19)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

Lysander and Comparison.

Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus.

Comparison.

Comparison. (12)

Comparison. Phocion and Cato the *

and Fabius Max-

VOLUME

VIII.

and Eumenes.

III.

im us. (14)

VOLUME (15) Sertorius

Comparison.

VOLUME

VII.

(20)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

Comparison. (13)

Comparison. Timoleon and Aemiliua

Comparison.

Camillus. (9)

VI.

Dion and Brutus.

Sulla.

(10)

Philopoemen and ininus.

Comparison.

VOLUME (16) Agesilaiis (8)

vin

VOLUME

V.

and Pompey.

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellus. Comparison.

(24) Aratus.

(23) Artaxerxes, (25)

Galba.

(26) Otho.

XI.

Flam-

THE TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES. (1)

Theseus and Romulus.

(2)

Lycurgus and Numa.

(3)

Solon and Publicola.

(4)

Themistocles and Camillus.

(5) Pericles

and Fabius Maximus.

(6)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

(7)

Timoleon and Aemilius Paul us.

(8)

Pelopidas and Marcellus.

(9) Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(12)

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

(13)

Cimon and Lucullus.

(10) (11)

(14) Nicias

and Crassus.

(15) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

(17)

and Pompey. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

(18)

Phocion and Cato the Younger.

(16) Agesilaiis

(19)

(20)

(21) (22)

Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus.

Demosthenes and Cicero. Demetrius and Antony. Dion and Brutus.

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

(26)

Otho.

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