Vides paral·leles (III)

Plutarc

Idioma:

anglès

Estat:

Complete work

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Written by the author

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. CÆSAR (_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 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 Timæus, who, when writing his history, hoped to surpass Thucydides himself in eloquence, and to sho

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