Plutarch's Lives: Aristides.-Marcus Cato.-Philopoemen.-T.Q. Flamininus.-Pyrrhus.-Caius MariusDent, 1924 |
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Page 322 - Marius' eyes, and heard a voice out of that dark corner, saying unto him : O fellow, thou, darest thou come to kill Caius Marius ? The barbarous Gaul hearing these words, ran out of the chamber presently, casting his sword in the middest of the floor, and crying out these words only : I cannot kill Caius Marius.
Page 328 - not so much for lack of reasonable skill of wars as through his unprofitable curiosity and strictness in observing the law ; for, when divers did persuade him to set the bondmen at liberty to take arms for defence of the Commonwealth, he answered, that he would never give bondmen the law and privilege of a Roman citizen, having driven Caius Marius out of Rome to maintain the authority of the law."a Here was passion for consistency, and want of practical sense.
Page 275 - ... was of so great courage besides, that none of his enemies ever hoped to have had him alive. But it is said, that after he was led in this triumph, he fell mad straight upon it. And the pomp of triumph being ended, he was carried into prison, where the sergeants for haste to have the spoil of him, tore his apparel by force from off his back : and because they would take away his rich gold earrings that hung at his ears, they pulled away...
Page 59 - He would likewise say that the soul of a lover lived in the body of another: and that in his whole life he most repented of three things; one was, that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment. Applying himself to an old man who was committing some vice: " Friend," said he, " old age has of itself blemishes enough; do not you add to it the deformity of vice.
Page 190 - ... also how to creep into their credit: and in like manner was he a great scorner and despiser of such as were his inferiors. Moreover, for that he was found...
Page 317 - ... of an eagle, in the which were seven young eagles: whereat his father and mother much wondering, asked the soothsayers what that meant. They answered, that their son one day should be one of the greatest men in the world...
Page 82 - Senate, that the ambassadors were long there, and had no despatch : considering also they were cunning men, and could easily persuade what they would. And if there were no other respect, this only might persuade them to determine some answer for them, and so to send them home again...
Page 275 - ... they would take away his rich gold earrings that hung at his ears, they pulled away with them the tip of his ear, and then cast him naked to the bottom of a deep dungeon, his wits being altogether troubled. Yet when they did throw him down, laughing he said : O Hercules, how cold are your stoves...
Page 322 - ... of the Gaules, or one of the Cimbres (for we find both ' the one and the other in writing} that went thither with his ' sword drawn in his hand. Now that place of the chamber where ' Marius lay, was very dark, and, as it is reported, the man of ' armes thought he saw two burning flames come...
Page 332 - Annius tarried beneath at the door, and the soldiers went up the stairs into the chamber, and finding Anthony there, they began to encourage one another' to kill him, not one of them having the heart to lay hands upon him. For...