Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes, Historical and Critical ; and a Life of Plutarch, Volume 2J. Crissy, 1826 |
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Achæans Achradina action Æmilius affairs afterwards Antigonus Antiochus appeared Aristides arms army Athenians Athens barbarians battle body Boeotia brought called camp Carthaginians Cato cavalry Cimbri Cimon command consul Corinthians danger death Demetrius Dionysius endeavoured enemy enemy's engaged Epaminondas favour fell fight Flaminius fleet forces fortune friends gained galleys Gauls gave give glory greatest Grecian Greece Greeks hands Hannibal honour horse hundred Icetes killed king king's Lacedæmonians liberty Livy Lucullus Lysander Macedonians manner Marcellus marched Mardonius Marius Metellus Mithridates occasion officers Olympiad passed Pausanias Pelopidas Perseus Persian person Philip Philopomen Plutarch Polybius Pompey present Pyrrhus returned Romans Rome sail Scipio senate sent ships Sicily slain soldiers soon Spartans spoils sword Sylla Syracusans Syracuse temple Thebans Themistocles thing thought thousand Tigranes Timoleon tion took town tribunes triumph troops tyrant valour victory virtue wanted whole young
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Page 283 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 283 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait : Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost : He comes : nor want nor cold his course delay.
Page 283 - Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 68 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.
Page 179 - ... and diet; for to him, poor man, it would be as bad as banishment, since he could be of no more use to the buyer than he was to the seller.
Page 192 - He farther acquaints us, that he wrote histories for him with his own hand, in large characters, that, without stirring out of his father's house, ne might gain a knowledge of the great actions of the ancient Romans, and of the customs of his country. He was as careful not to utter an indecent word before his son, as he would have been in the presence of the vestal virgins; nor did he ever bathe with him.
Page 192 - For he taught him not only how to throw a dart, -to fight hand to hand, and to ride, but to box, to endure heat and cold, and to swim the most rapid rij;ers.
Page 181 - He used to say, that his enemies hated him, because he neglected his own concerns, and rose before day to mind those of the public. But that he had rather his good actions should go unrewarded, than his bad ones unpunished ; and that he pardoned every body's faults sooner than his own.
Page 259 - When Pyrrhus had thus retired into Epirus, and left Macedonia, he had a fair occasion given him by fortune to enjoy himself in quiet, and to govern his own kingdom in peace. But he was persuaded, that neither to annoy others, nor to be annoyed by them, was a life insufferably languishing and tedious. Like Achilles, he could not endure inaction : He pined in dull repose; his heart indignant Bade the scene change to war, to wounds, and death.
Page 261 - Why then, my friend, said Pyrrhus, laughing, " we will take our ease, and drink, and be merry." Cineas, having brought him thus far replied, — " And what hinders us from drinking and taking our ease now, when we have already those things in our hands, at which we propose to arrive through seas of blood, through infinite toils and dangers, through innumerable calamities, which we must both cause and suffer?