Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2C. Bathurst, 1794 |
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... deaths of illustrious men is usually pronounced by fome near kinfman , he delivered himself ; and having committed it ... death of his fon , a person of great merit and of " confular dignity . His elogium is in our hands ; and while we ...
... deaths of illustrious men is usually pronounced by fome near kinfman , he delivered himself ; and having committed it ... death of his fon , a person of great merit and of " confular dignity . His elogium is in our hands ; and while we ...
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... death nothing was found in his house but an iron fpit . The expence of Fabius's funeral was not indeed defrayed out of the Roman treasury , but every citizen contributed a small piece of money towards it ; not that he died without ...
... death nothing was found in his house but an iron fpit . The expence of Fabius's funeral was not indeed defrayed out of the Roman treasury , but every citizen contributed a small piece of money towards it ; not that he died without ...
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... death , which happened not long after , when Alcibiades was upon his voyage to Ephefus . Nor does the violence ufed , in this cafe , feem to be contrary to the laws , either of fociety in general , or of that republic in particular ...
... death , which happened not long after , when Alcibiades was upon his voyage to Ephefus . Nor does the violence ufed , in this cafe , feem to be contrary to the laws , either of fociety in general , or of that republic in particular ...
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... death for the benefit of her country ; it has been fuppofed , therefore , that the oath which the young Athenians took , bound them to do fomething of that nature , if need fhould require ; though as given by Plutarch , it implies only ...
... death for the benefit of her country ; it has been fuppofed , therefore , that the oath which the young Athenians took , bound them to do fomething of that nature , if need fhould require ; though as given by Plutarch , it implies only ...
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... death , if he could not " clear himself of the charge ; but if he could prove his “ innocence , juftice required that he should be fet free " from all fear of falfe accufers , before they sent him 86 against their enemies . " But he ...
... death , if he could not " clear himself of the charge ; but if he could prove his “ innocence , juftice required that he should be fet free " from all fear of falfe accufers , before they sent him 86 against their enemies . " But he ...
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