Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770 |
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... Ariftophanes fatirized . By his ha rangues and political intrigues , he got himself appointed general . See a farther account of him in the life of Nicias . towns and villages : and Pericles himself made a descent PERICLE S. 47.
... Ariftophanes fatirized . By his ha rangues and political intrigues , he got himself appointed general . See a farther account of him in the life of Nicias . towns and villages : and Pericles himself made a descent PERICLE S. 47.
Page 100
... Nicias , Demofthenes , Lamachus , Phormio , Thrafybulus , Theramenes , were illuftrious perfons , and his cotemporaries , yet we do not fo much as know the name of the mother of either of them ; whereas we know even the nurse of ...
... Nicias , Demofthenes , Lamachus , Phormio , Thrafybulus , Theramenes , were illuftrious perfons , and his cotemporaries , yet we do not fo much as know the name of the mother of either of them ; whereas we know even the nurse of ...
Page 112
... Nicias the fon of Niceratus . The latter was advanced in years , and one of the best generals of his time . The former was but a youth , like himself , juft beginning to make his way ; for which he had the advantage of high birth ; but ...
... Nicias the fon of Niceratus . The latter was advanced in years , and one of the best generals of his time . The former was but a youth , like himself , juft beginning to make his way ; for which he had the advantage of high birth ; but ...
Page 113
... Nicias , caused the oftra- cifm to fall upon Hyperbolus himself . Some fay , it was not Nicias , but Phaeax , with whom Alcibi- ades joined intereft , and by whose affistance he ex- pelled their common enemy , when he expected nothing ...
... Nicias , caused the oftra- cifm to fall upon Hyperbolus himself . Some fay , it was not Nicias , but Phaeax , with whom Alcibi- ades joined intereft , and by whose affistance he ex- pelled their common enemy , when he expected nothing ...
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... Nicias that they obtained a peace and recovered the captives , their regards centered in him . It was a common obfervation among the Greeks , that Pericles had engaged them in a war , and Nicias had fet them free from it ; nay , the ...
... Nicias that they obtained a peace and recovered the captives , their regards centered in him . It was a common obfervation among the Greeks , that Pericles had engaged them in a war , and Nicias had fet them free from it ; nay , the ...
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