Plutarch's Lives: Aristides.-Marcus Cato.-Philopoemen.-T.Q. Flamininus.-Pyrrhus.-Caius MariusDent, 1899 |
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Achaians Acrotatus afterwards Ambrons amongst answer Antigonus Aristides arms army Athenians Athens banished barbarous battell began brought called camp captains Cato Cato's Catulus cause charge chiefest Cimbrians Cineas citizens commanded common wealth Consul consulship death Demetrius Dinocrates doth enemies Epirus fear fell fight fled footmen force fortune fought friends Furthermore Gauls gave Grecians Greece Greek hands Hannibal hath honour horse horsemen Howbeit Italy King Pyrrhus Lacedæmonians liberty Lucius Lysimachus Macedon Macedonians Manius manner Marcus Cato Mardonius Marius marvellous matter Messené Metellus Neoptolemus never noble notwithstanding passed Pausanias peace Peloponnesus Philip Philopomen pray Ptolemy Pyrrhus Quintius Flamininus reason Romans Rome Scipio Senate sent shew side slain soldiers spake Sparta spoil straight sword tarry Themistocles things thither thought thousand Titus told took triumph trouble unto valiant vertue victory wars Wherefore whereof Whereupon wise withal writeth young
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Page 340 - Now when they were agreed upon it, they could not find a man in the city that durst take upon him to kill him: but a man of arms of the Gauls, or one of the Cimbrians (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 wherein Marius lay was very dark, and as it is reported, the man of arms thought he saw two burning flames come out of Marius...
Page 100 - And if there were no other respect, this only might persuade them to determine some answer for them, and to send them home again to their schools, to teach their children of Greece, and to let alone the children of Rome, that they might learn to obey the laws and the Senate, as they had done before. Now he spake thus to the Senate, not of any private ill will or malice he bare to Carneades, as some men thought: but because he generally hated philosophy.
Page 66 - ... that his hyndes and worke men alwayes dronke no worse wine, when he was Consull and generall of the armie, then he did him selfe: and that his cater never bestowed in meate for his supper, above thirty Asses of Romaine money, and yet he sayed it was, bicause he might be the stronger, and apter to do service in the warres for his contry and the common wealth. He sayd furthermore, that being heire to one of his frends that dyed, he had a peece of tapestry by him with a deepe border, which they...
Page 346 - 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 59 - In connection with the date of Othello, the parallel is of interest. 149. Had tongue at will] Mr. Craig gives me a good instance : "in short time he became a perfect pleader, and had tongue at will," North's Plutarch's Lives, Cato, p.
Page 75 - 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 293 - ... 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.' He lived there yet six days, fighting with hunger, and desiring always to prolong his miserable life unto the last hour: the which was a just deserved punishment for his wicked life.
Page 69 - Oxe that hadde plowed my lande a longe time, bicause he coulde plowe no longer for age : and much lesse my slave to sell him for a litle money, out of the contrie where he had dwelt a long time, to plucke him from his olde trade of life wherewith he was best acquainted, and then specially, when he shalbe as unprofitable for the buyer, as also for the seller. But Cato on the other side gloried, that he left his horse in...
Page 272 - ... to the goodness of his horse, flew upon his enemies that followed him. It fortuned that one hurt him with a pike, but the wound was neither dangerous nor great : wherefore Pyrrhus set upon him who had hurt him, who was an Argian boor, a man of mean condition and a poor old woman's son, whose mother at that present time was gotten up to the top of the tiles of a house, as all other women of the city were, to see the fight. And she perceiving that it was her son whom Pyrrhus came upon, was so affrighted...