"[A] North, in his address to the Reader, says: "The profit of
stories, and the praise of the Author, are sufficiently declared by
Amiot, in his Epistle to the Reader: so that I shall not need to make
many words thereof. And indeed if you will supply the defects of this
translation, with your own diligence and good understanding: you shall
not need to trust him, you may prove yourselves, that there is no
prophane study better than Plutarch. All other learning is private,
fitter for Universities than Cities, fuller of contemplation than
experience, more commendable in students themselves, than profitable
unto others. Whereas stories are fit for every place, reach to all
persons, serve for all times, teach the living, revive the dead, so far
excelling all other books, as it is better to see learning in Noblemen's
lives, than to read it in Philosophers' writings."
GEORGE LONG.
[Footnote A: Cotton's Translation.]
CONTENTS.
LIFE OF PLUTARCH xxiii
LIFE OF THESEUS 1
LIFE OF ROMULUS 30
COMPARISON OF THESEUS AND ROMULUS 62
LIFE OF LYKURGUS 67
LIFE OF NUMA 99
COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYKURGUS 124
LIFE OF SOLON 130
LIFE OF POPLICOLA 161
COMPARISON OF SOLON AND POPLICOLA 181
LIFE OF THEMISTOKLES 185
LIFE OF CAMILLUS 214
LIFE OF PERIKLES 252
LIFE OF FABIUS MAXIMUS 288
COMPARISON OF PERIKLES AND FABIUS MAXIMIUS 315
LIFE OF ALKIBIADES 318
LIFE OF CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS 357
COMPARISON BETWEEN ALKIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS 390
LIFE OF TIMOLEON 395
LIFE OF AEMILIUS 428
COMPARISON OF PAULUS AEMILIUS AND TIMOLEON 461
LIFE OF PLUTARCH.
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