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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Page 30
... Sicily , and Carthage on the other . The Athenains , therefore , after they had de- voured Sicily in their thoughts , might think of extending their conquests to the countries on the right and left ; in the fame manner as king Pyrrhus ...
... Sicily , and Carthage on the other . The Athenains , therefore , after they had de- voured Sicily in their thoughts , might think of extending their conquests to the countries on the right and left ; in the fame manner as king Pyrrhus ...
Page 31
... Sicily , and who feemed to have derived the vice of avarice from him as an hereditary diftemper . He was led by it into bad practices , for which he was banished with ignominy from Sparta , as we have related in the Life of Lyfander ...
... Sicily , and who feemed to have derived the vice of avarice from him as an hereditary diftemper . He was led by it into bad practices , for which he was banished with ignominy from Sparta , as we have related in the Life of Lyfander ...
Page 87
... but of the mercenaries . Hence all governments should learn to beware how they entrust their towns with garrifons of hired troops and ftrangers . of that infamous band brought by Marcellus out of Sicily FABIUS MAXIMUS . 87.
... but of the mercenaries . Hence all governments should learn to beware how they entrust their towns with garrifons of hired troops and ftrangers . of that infamous band brought by Marcellus out of Sicily FABIUS MAXIMUS . 87.
Page 88
... Sicily , and therefore the lofs of them would not be great , nor much lamented by the Romans . These men he threw out as a bait for Hannibal , and by facrificing them hoped to draw him to a distance from Tarentum . The defign fucceeded ...
... Sicily , and therefore the lofs of them would not be great , nor much lamented by the Romans . These men he threw out as a bait for Hannibal , and by facrificing them hoped to draw him to a distance from Tarentum . The defign fucceeded ...
Page 93
... Sicily , and three hundred of those men who had ferved him with fo much fidelity in Spain . In this particular Fabius feems to have followed the dictates of his own cautious temper . After Scipio was gone over into Africa , an ac- count ...
... Sicily , and three hundred of those men who had ferved him with fo much fidelity in Spain . In this particular Fabius feems to have followed the dictates of his own cautious temper . After Scipio was gone over into Africa , an ac- count ...
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