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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... refpect imitating a good phyfician , C 4 who , improved the eftate left him by his father . To which the true anfwer probably is , that Pericles was politician enough to know , that the vanity of the Athenians would never let them agree ...
... refpect imitating a good phyfician , C 4 who , improved the eftate left him by his father . To which the true anfwer probably is , that Pericles was politician enough to know , that the vanity of the Athenians would never let them agree ...
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... refpect from the people , when they perceived that their enemies both hated and dreaded him above all others . For the fame reafon he fore . warned the Athenians , that if Archidamus , when he entered Attica at the head of the Pelopon ...
... refpect from the people , when they perceived that their enemies both hated and dreaded him above all others . For the fame reafon he fore . warned the Athenians , that if Archidamus , when he entered Attica at the head of the Pelopon ...
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... refpect to the affairs of Hanni- " bal ; and I do affure you , that if the Romans come to no battle with him this year , he will either be undone by his ftay in Italy , or else be obliged to quit it . Even now , when he feems to be ...
... refpect to the affairs of Hanni- " bal ; and I do affure you , that if the Romans come to no battle with him this year , he will either be undone by his ftay in Italy , or else be obliged to quit it . Even now , when he feems to be ...
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... refpect had greatly the advantage , as we have already obferved in his life . re Hannibal had haftened to the relief of Tarentum , and being within five miles of it , when it was taken , he fcrupled not to fay publickly , " The Romans ...
... refpect had greatly the advantage , as we have already obferved in his life . re Hannibal had haftened to the relief of Tarentum , and being within five miles of it , when it was taken , he fcrupled not to fay publickly , " The Romans ...
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... refpect which the Athenians shemselves paid him . The rights of hofpitality had VOL . II . In the lives of Ariftides and Nicias . I long long fubfifted between the family of Alcibiades and the Lacedæmonians ALCIBIA DE S. 113.
... refpect which the Athenians shemselves paid him . The rights of hofpitality had VOL . II . In the lives of Ariftides and Nicias . I long long fubfifted between the family of Alcibiades and the Lacedæmonians ALCIBIA DE S. 113.
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