Plutarch Lives: Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus [2] 0674990536, 9780674990531

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PLUTAECH'S LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

BERNADOTTE PERRIN IN ELEVEN

VOLUMES

II

THEMISTOCLES AND CAMILLUS AND CATO MAJOR CIMON AND LUCULLUS

ARISTIDES

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS MOMLIX

First Printed, March 1914 Reprinted, 1928, 1948, 1959

rsi

Printed in Great Britain

CONTENTS PADS

PREFATORY NOTE

vii

ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN THIS EDITION TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES THEMISTOCLES

CAMILLUS

...

.

ix

....

X

.

1

93

ARISTIDES

209

MARCUS CATO

301

COMPARISON OF ARISTIDES AND CATO

384

CIMON

403

LUCULLUS

469

COMPARISON OF CIMON AND LUCULLUS

610

DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES

623

PREFATORY NOTE As

in

the

between the

volume of

first

Sintenis

this series,

agreement (Teubner, 1873-1875) and

Bekker (Tauclmitz, 1855-1857) texts of the Parallel been taken as the basis for the text.

Lives has

one to the other where they differ, and any departure from both, have been indicated. The more important ameliorations of the preference of

Any

text which have been secured by collations of Parisinus 1676 (F*)

The

have been introduced. these first

MSS.

volume.

is

Codex

and Codex Seitenstettensis

(S),

relative importance of

explained in the Introduction to the No attempt has been made, naturally,

to furnish either a diplomatic text or a full critical

apparatus.

The reading which

the

notes

and

critical

also, unless

is

follows the colon in

that of the Teubner Sintenis,

otherwise stated in the note, of

the Tauchnitz Bekker.

Among

editions of special Lives included in this

volume should be noted that of Fuhr, Themistokles und Perikks, Berlin,

1880, in

the Haupt-Sauppe vii

PREFATORY NOTE series of

und

annotated texts

;

that of Blass, Themistokles

Perikles, Leipzig, 1883, in

annotated texts

;

and the same

Cato, Leipzig, 1898, in the

editions bring F*

the Teubner series of

and S

editor's Aristides und

same

series.

into rightful

All these

prominence as

This has been done also by in his edition of the Tkemistocles (Macmillan, Holden,

a basis for the text.

1892).

The translations of the Tkemistocles, Aristides, and Cimon have already appeared in my " Plutarch's Themistocles and Aristides" (New York, 1901), and '^Plutarch's

Cimon and

Pericles

"

(New York,

and are reproduced here (with only

1910),

slight changes)

by the generous consent of the publishers, the Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.

The

translations

of the Camillus, Cato, and Lucullus appear here for the first time. All the standard translations of the Lives have been carefully compared

aud

utilised,

including that of the Lucullus by Professor Long. B.

New Haven,

Connecticut, U.S.A.

February, 1914.

vm

PERRIN.

I

ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN THIS EDITION IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF THE GREEK LIVES. Volume (1)

(2)

(3)

Volume (4)

I.

Theseus and Romulus. Comparison. Lycurgus and Numa. Comparison. Solon and Publicola. Comparison. II.

Themistocles and

(22) (7)

Paulus.

Volume

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(17)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

Comparison. Cimon and LucuUus. Comparison.

Volume (5)

Pericles

Volume (15) Sertorius

Comparison. Phocion and Cato the Younger.

(21)

Volume IX. Demetrius and Antony. Comparison. PyrrhusandCaiusMarius.

III.

Comparison. Nicias and Crassus.

(11)

Comparison.

Volume (6)

IV.

(19)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

Lysander and Comparison.

Sulla.

(10)

(8)

and Pompey.

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellus. Comparison.

Philopoemen and

Flam-

ininus.

Comparison.

Volume XL

Volume V. (16) Agesilaiis

Volume X. Agis and Cleomenes, and and Caius Tiberius Gracchus. Comparison.

Comparison. (12)

VIII.

and Eumenes.

(18)

and Fabius Max-

im us. (14)

VII.

(20)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(13)

Comparison. Timoleon and Aemilius

Comparison.

Camillus. (9)

Volume VI. Dion and Brutus.

(24) Aratus.

(23) Artaxerxes. (25) Galba. (26)

Otho.

IX

THE TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES. (1)

Theseus and Romulus.

(2)

Lycurgus and Numa.

(3)

Solon and Publicola.

(4)

Themistocles and Camillus.

and Fabius Maximus.

(5)

Pericles

(6)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

(7)

Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus.

(8)

Pelopidas and Marcellus.

(9)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(10) (11)

Philopoemen and Flamininus. Pyrrhus and Caius Marius.

(12)

Lysander and Sulla.

(13)

Cimon and LucuUus.

(14) Nicias

and Crassus.

(Jo) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

(17)

and Pompey. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

(18)

Phocion and Cato the Younger.

(19)

Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus.

(16) Agesilaiis

(20)

(21) (22)

Demosthenes and Cicero. Demetrius and Antony. Dion and Brutus.

(23) Artaxerxes. (24) Aratus. (25)

Galba.

(26)

Otho.

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own exile and condemnation. Then he composed the song beginning "O Muse, grant that this song Be famed throughout all Hellas, As it is meet and just." after the latter's

:

—

It is said that Timocreon was sent into exile on a charge of Medising, and that Themistocles concurred in the vote of condemnation. Accordingly, when Themistocles also was accused of Medising, Timocreon composed these lines upon him :

—

"Not Timocreon

alone, then, made compacts with the Medes, But there are other wretches too ; not I alone am brushless.

There are other foxes too." XXII. And at last, when even his fellow-citizens were led by their jealousy of his greatness to welcome such slanders against him, he was forced to allude to his own achievements when he addressed the Assembly, till he became tiresome thereby, and he once said to the malcontents " Why are ye vexed " that the same men should often benefit you ? :

He offended the multitude also by building the temple of Artemis, whom he surnamed Aristoboule, or Best Counsellor, intimating thus that it was he who had given the best counsel to the city and to the Hellenes. This temple he established near his house in Melit6, where now the public officers cast out the bodies of those who have been put to death, and carry forth the garments and the nooses of those who have dispatched themselves by hanging. A portrait-statue of Themistocles stood in this 61

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