Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 is a collection of paired biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen and generals, translated from Greek. It includes lives of Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristeides, Cato, Philopoemen, Flamininus, Pyrrhus, Marius, Lysander, Sulla, Kimon, and Lucullus, with comparisons. Worth listening for its portraits of character, leadership, and political virtue.
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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. CHAPTER PAGE
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 PHILOPŒMEN.
134
LIFE OF TITUS FLAMININUS.
154
COMPARISON OF PHILOPŒMEN 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
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