Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, Bind 3Brannan and Morford, 1811 |
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Side 9
... towns , offered them reasonable and mode- rate terms . For the Romans did not choose utterly to cut off the people of Liguria , whom they considered as a bulwark against the Gauls , a people always hovering over Italy . The Ligurians ...
... towns , offered them reasonable and mode- rate terms . For the Romans did not choose utterly to cut off the people of Liguria , whom they considered as a bulwark against the Gauls , a people always hovering over Italy . The Ligurians ...
Side 11
... towns that were near the great roads and by the sea to run to decay , and to become half - desolated , in order that he might be held in contempt by the enemy , he collected an immense force in the higher provinces ; and filling the ...
... towns that were near the great roads and by the sea to run to decay , and to become half - desolated , in order that he might be held in contempt by the enemy , he collected an immense force in the higher provinces ; and filling the ...
Side 22
... this opinion the king rejected from the cowardly principle , that per . haps the town , which he chose for his residence , might be the first besieged . the young officers eager for engagement , and particular- ly 22 PAULUS EMILIUS .
... this opinion the king rejected from the cowardly principle , that per . haps the town , which he chose for his residence , might be the first besieged . the young officers eager for engagement , and particular- ly 22 PAULUS EMILIUS .
Side 39
... were commanded immediately to transport themselves into Italy : and the supreme power in Macedon was vested in certain Roman senators . 90 A seaport town in Macedon . * sixteen ranks of oars , and was richly adorned with PAULUS ÆMILIUS .
... were commanded immediately to transport themselves into Italy : and the supreme power in Macedon was vested in certain Roman senators . 90 A seaport town in Macedon . * sixteen ranks of oars , and was richly adorned with PAULUS ÆMILIUS .
Side 50
... did not 106 Plutarch here writes Elea instead of Velia , and calls it a town in Italy , to distinguish it from one of the same name in Greece . 107 A. U. C. 594. , Æt . 68. * . consist in the pomp of gold , of ivory " PAULUS ÆMILIUS . 50.
... did not 106 Plutarch here writes Elea instead of Velia , and calls it a town in Italy , to distinguish it from one of the same name in Greece . 107 A. U. C. 594. , Æt . 68. * . consist in the pomp of gold , of ivory " PAULUS ÆMILIUS . 50.
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Achæans action Æmilius affairs afterward Alexander Annibal Antigonus Antiochus appeared Archimedes Aristides arms army Athenians Athens attack barbarians battle body Boeotia brought called camp Carthaginians Cato cavalry Cineas citizens command consul danger death Demetrius despatched Dinocrates embassadors endeavoured enemy enemy's engaged Epaminondas Epirus Etolians Fabius favour fell fight Flaminius foot forces fortune fought friends gained Gauls gave glory Grecian Greece Greeks hands honour horse hundred illustrious killed king Lacedæmonians liberty likewise Livy Lucius Lysimachus Macedon Macedonians Marcellus marched Mardonius Neoptolemus observed occasion officers Paulus Pausanias Pelopidas Perseus Persians person Philip Philopomen Platææ Plutarch Polybius Pyrrhus received Ricard Romans Rome sacrifice says Scipio senate sent Sicily slain soldiers soon Spartans sword Syracusans temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thessaly thing thousand tion Titus took town tribune triumph troops tyrant victory virtue whole wounded young
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Side 340 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Side 45 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most, he mingles both. The wretch decreed To taste the bad, unrnix'd, is curst indeed; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.
Side 126 - But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Side 124 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Side 158 - Aristides, whom he took for some ordinary person, and giving him his shell, desired him to write Aristides upon it. The good man, surprised at the adventure, asked him, " Whether Aristides had ever injured him ?"
Side 46 - For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red : it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same. 10 As for the dregs thereof : all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them, and suck them out.
Side 318 - Hitherto I have regarded my blindness as a misfortune, but now, Romans, I wish I had been as deaf as I am blind ; for then I should not have heard of your shameful counsels and decrees, so ruinous to the glory of Rome.