Plutarch's Lives: Sertorius and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger [8] 0674991117, 9780674991118

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PLUTARCH'S LIVES VIII

litt.u.

m.a., f.b.hist.soc.

PLUTARCH'S LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

BERNADOTTE PERRIN IN

ELEVEN VOLUMES VIII

SERTORIUS AND EUMENES PHOCION AND CATO THE YOUNGER

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS HGHLIX

first printed 1919 Reprinted 1949, 1959

rrintid in Great Britain

CONTENTS PAOB

PKEFATOKY NOTE

ORDER OF THB

PARAI.I.Kf.

vi

LIVKS IN THI3 EDITION

TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES SSRTORICS

ECHENBS

,

.

.

viii

ix

1

77

COMPARISON OP SERTOR10S AND El'MENKS

137

PHOCION

143

CATO THE TOCSUER

235

DICTIONARY OP PKOPER NAUKS

413

PREFATORY NOTE As

in the

preceding volumes of this

series, agree-

ment between the Sintenis (Teubner, 1873-1875) and Bekker (Tauchnitz, 1855-1857) editions of the Parallel Lives has text.

Any

been taken as the

basis for the

preference of one to the other, and any

important departure from both, have been indicated. An abridged account of the manuscripts of Plutarcli

may be found in the Introduction to the first volume. None of the Lives presented in this volume are contained in the two oldest and best manuscripts

Codex Sangermanensis

(S")

—the

and the Codex Seiten-

stettensis (S), or in the excellent Paris manuscript

No. 1676

(F*).

Their text therefore rests principally

on the Paris manuscripts Nos. 1671, 1673, and 1674 (ACD). No attempt has been made, naturally, to furnish either a diplomatic text or a full critical apparatus. tiie

4

For these, the reader must be referred to

major edition of Sintenis (Leipzig, 1839-1846,

voll.,

Svo),

or to the rather inaccessible text of

the Livet by Lindskog and Ziegler, in the Teubner vi

PREFATORY NOTE Library of Greek and Latin texts (Vol. IIL, Fase.

L

was published in 1915). In the present edition, the reading which follows the colon in the brief critical

also,

notes

is

that of the

unless otherwise

Teubner

stated in

the

Sintenis,

and

note, of the

Tauchnitz Bekker, All the standard translations

been carefully compared and

of the Lives have

utilized, including those

of the Sertoritu and Calo by Professor Long. B.

New Haven,

Connecticut, U.S.A.

October, 1919.

PERRIN.

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

(2)

(3)

Volume XL Themistocles and

(4)

Volume

I.

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

(22) (7)

(13)

Paulus.

Volume

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(17)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

Comparison. Cimon and LucuUus. Comparison.

Volume Pericles

and Crassus.

Volume

Comparison. Phocion and Cato the Younger.

Volume (21)

Comparison. IV.

Alci blades and Coriolanus.

Comparison. (12)

(18)

VIII.

and Eumenes.

III.

Comparison.

(6)

Volumb (15) Sertorius

and Fabius Max-

im us. (14) Nicias

VII.

(20)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(6)

Comparison. Timoleon and Aemilius

Comparison.

Camillus. (9)

VI.

Dion and Brutus.

Lysander and Sulla. Comparison.

(11)

IX.

Demetrius and Antony. Comparison. PyrrliusandCaiusMarius.

Volume X. Agia and Cleomenes, and and Caius Tiberius Gracchus. Comparison. (10) Philopoemen and Flam-

(19)

iniiius.

Comparison.

Volume (16) Agesilaiis (8)

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellus. Comparison.

viU

Volume XL

V.

and Pompey.

(24) Aratus. (23) ArtaxerxoB. (25)

Galba,

(26) Otho.

THE TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES. (1]

Theseus and Romulus.

(2)

Lycurgua and Numa.

(3)

Solon and Publicolaw

(4)

Themistocles and Camillus.

(5) Pericles

and Fabius Maximus.

(6)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

(7)

Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus.

(8)

Pelopidas and Marcellus.

(9) Aristides

and Cato the Elder.

(10)

Philopoenien and Flamininns.

(11)

Pyrrhus and Caius Marius. Lysander and SuUa.

(12) (l.S)

(14)

Cimon and LucuUus. Xicias and Crassus.

(15) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

(17)

and Pompey. Alexander and Jnlins Caesar.

(18)

Phocion and Cato the Younger.

(16) Agesilaiis

(19)

(20)

(21) (22)

Agis and Cleoraenes, and Tiberius and Cains Gracchus.

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

(23) Artaxerxes. (24) Aratug. (25)

Galba.

(26)

Otho.

SERTORIUS

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