Plutarch's Lives: Clough's TranslationGinn, 1892 - 333 من الصفحات |
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accused action admiration affairs afterwards Alexander amongst Anaxagoras answer appeared Aristides arms army Asia Athenians Athens barbarians battle body brought Bruttian Brutus Cæsar called camp carried Carthaginians Cato Cicero Cimbri Cimon Cinna citizens command consul consulship courage danger Darius death defeated desired Elpinice enemy engaged Eurybiades Fabius favor fear fell fight fled forces fought friends Gaul gave give glory gods Greece Greeks hand Hannibal honor horse hundred Italy king Lacedæmonians land live looked Macedonians magistrates marched Marcius master Metellus Minucius Mithridates night occasion Olynthus party passed patricians Pericles Persians person plebeians Plutarch Pompey Pompey's prætors present received river Romans Rome Scipio senate sent Sertorius ships showed side soldiers soon Spain sword Sylla Tarentum temper Themistocles things thought thousand Thucydides tion told took town tribunes Tullus victory Volscians whole Xerxes
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الصفحة xii - Ch¿ronean Plutarch, to thy deathless praise Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise, Because both Greece and she thy fame have shared, (Their heroes written, and their lives compared). But thou thyself couldst never write thy own; Their lives have parallels, but
الصفحة 113 - recommendation to Antipater, that when they came home, at all public shows and in the theatres, they should sit on the best and foremost seats, crowned with chaplets of flowers. He ordered, also, that the children of those who had lost their lives in his service should have their fathers
الصفحة 49 - and freshness looks to this day as if it were just executed. There is a sort of bloom of newness upon those works of his, preserving them from the touch of time, as if they had some perennial spirit and undying vitality mingled in the composition of
الصفحة 68 - features of the face, in which the character is seen, than in the other parts of the body, so I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks and indications of the souls of
الصفحة 21 - you command your mother.” Loving to be singular in all things, when he had land to sell, he ordered the crier to give notice that there were good neighbors near it. Of two who made love to his daughter, he preferred the man of worth to the one who was rich, saying
الصفحة 42 - to such evils as appropriations of subject territory, allowances for attending theatres, payments for performing public duties, and by these bad habits were, under the influence of his public measures, changed from a sober, thrifty people, that maintained themselves by their own labors, to lovers of expense, intemperance, and license. Let us
الصفحة 62 - a garland of flowers upon the head of the corpse, he was vanquished by his passion at the sight, so that he burst into exclamations, and shed copious tears, having never done any such thing in all his life before. The city having made trial of other generals for the conduct of war, and orators for
الصفحة 272 - the foundations of his bridge. But he drove great piles of wood into the bottom of the river above the passage, to catch and stop these as they floated down, and thus fixing his bridle upon the stream, successfully finished his bridge, which no one who saw could believe to be the work but of
الصفحة 310 - Dolabella were in a plot against him, he said he did not fear such fat, luxurious men, but rather the pale, lean fellows, meaning Cassius and Brutus. Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected. For many strange prodigies and apparitions are said to have been observed shortly before the event. As to the lights
الصفحة 168 - interment, adorning his sepulchre with arms and trophies, as the monument of a noble hero and a famous general. When the Romans heard tidings of his death, they gave no other signification either of honor or of anger towards him, but simply granted the request of the women, that they might put themselves into