Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's, المجلد 3Little, Brown,, 1875 |
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action afterwards Alcibiades amongst Antigonus Antipater Archelaus Armenia arms army Asia Athenians Athens bade barbarians battle besieged body Boeotia brought Cæsar called camp Cappadocia carried Cimbri Cimon Cinna citizens command consul consulship courage Crassus Craterus danger death Demetrius desired divine enemy engaged Ephors Eumenes favor fear fell fight fled forces fortune friends galleys Gaul gave give glory Greece Greek Gylippus hand honor horse hundred Italy Jugurtha killed king king's Lacedæmonians Lucullus Lucullus's Lysander Macedon Macedonians Marius Marius's master Metellus Mithridates Neoptolemus Nicias night occasion officers Parthians passed Pausanias peace person plunder Pompey prætor present Pyrrhus received rest returned river Romans Rome sailed seemed senate sent Sertorius ships Sicily slain slaves slew soldiers soon Sparta stood Surena sword Sylla Syracusans taken thing thought thousand Tigranes tion told took town victory wounded young
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الصفحة 17 - When Cineas had led Pyrrhus with his argument to this point: "And what hinders us now, sir, if we have a mind to be merry, and entertain...
الصفحة 280 - Once when he supped alone, there being only one course, and that but moderately furnished, he called his steward and reproved him, who, professing to have supposed that there would be no need of any great entertainment, when nobody was invited, was answered, "What, did not you know, then, that to-day Lucullus...
الصفحة 252 - ... statues. In the end their lot was to yield themselves up slaves to their creditors, but before this worse troubles befell them, tortures, inflicted with ropes and by horses, standing abroad to be scorched when the sun was hot, and being driven into ice and clay in the cold ; insomuch that slavery was no less than a redemption and joy to them. Lucullus in a short time freed the cities from all these evils and oppressions; for, first of all, he ordered there should be no more taken than one per...
الصفحة 374 - He was receiving much applause, when Sillaces, coming, to the room, and having made obeisance to the king, threw down the head of Crassus into the midst of the company. The Parthians receiving it with joy and acclamations, Sillaces, by the king's command, was made to sit down, while Jason handed over the costume of Pentheus to one of the dancers in the chorus, and taking up the head of Crassus, and acting the part of a bacchante in her frenzy, in a rapturous impassioned manner, sang the lyric passages...
الصفحة 329 - ... been relieved with meat and drink for repeating some of his lyrics. Nor need this be any wonder, for it is told that a ship of Caunus fleeing into one of their harbors for protection, pursued by pirates, was not received, but forced back, till one asked if they knew any of Euripides's verses, and on their saying they did, they were admitted, and their ship brought into harbor.
الصفحة 90 - They, as soon as thev had got into the ship, weighed anchor and departed, as thinking it neither honorable to deliver Marius into the hands of those that sought him, nor safe to protect him. He thus, deserted by all, lay a good while silently on the shore; at length collecting himself, he advanced with pain and difficulty, without any path, till, wading through deep bogs and ditches full of water and mud, he came upon the hut of an old man that worked in the fens, and falling at his feet besought...
الصفحة 447 - First, that I was born a human being and not one of the brutes; next, that I was born a man and not a woman; thirdly, a Greek and not a barbarian.