Plutarch, Lives: Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar [7]

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PLUTARCH'S LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

BERNADOTTE PERRIN IN ELEVEN

VOLUMES

VII

DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO ALEXANDER AND CAESAR

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMLVin

at! First pr-nted 1919 Reptitued, 1928, 1949,

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Printed in Great Britain

CONTENTS PAOB

PKKFATORY NOTE

ORDKR OF THE PARALLEL LIVES

Vi

IN THIS EDITION

TRADITIONAL ORDER OK THE PARALLEL LIVES

DEMOSTHENES CICERO

.

.

.

viii

ix 1

81

COM PA IIISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO

211

ALEXANDER

223

CAESAR

441

DICllONARY OF PROPER NAMES

611

PREFATORY NOTE As

in the

preceding volumes of this

series, agree-

between the Sintenis (Teubner, 1873-1875) and Bekker (Tauchnitz, 1855-1857) editions of the nuiit

Parallel Lives lias

been taken

as the basis for the

text. Any preference of one to the other, and any important departure from both, have been indicated. An abridged account of the manuscripts of Plutarch

may be found None

in the Introduction to the fir^t volume.

of the Lives presented in this volume are con-

tained

in

the two oldest and most authoritative

—

manuscripts the Codex Sangermanensis (S*) and the Codex Seitenstettensis (S), or in the excellent Paris manuscript No. 1676 (F*).

Their text there-

principally on the Paris manuscripts Nos. 1671, 1673, and 1674 (ACD), although in a few instances weight has been given to readings from fore

rests

the Codex Matritensis (M*), on the authority of the collations of Charles Graux and his editions of the Demosthenes and Cicero. naturally, to furnish vi

No attempt

has been made,

either a diplomatic text or a

PREFATORY NOTE full critical

For these, the reader must

apparatus.

be referred to the major edition of Sintenis (Leipzig, 1839-1846, 4 voU., 8vo), or to the rather inaccessible text of the Lives by Lindskog and Ziegler, in the Teubner Library of Greek and Latin texts (Vol. IIL, In the present Fasc. L was published in 1915). edition, the reading

brief critical notes

and

also, unless

which follows the colon

is

in the

that of the Teubner Sintenis,

otherwise stated in the note, of the

Tauchnitz Bekker. All the standard translations of the Liucs have carefully compared and utilized, including those of the Cicero and Caesar by Professor Long. And more or less use has been made of the follow-

been

ing works

:

Graux, Fie de Dcmoslhene, and Fie de 1883 and 1882 Holden, Plutarch's

Ciceron, Paris,

Demosthenes,

;

Cambridge,

Pitt

Press

Series,

1893

;

Gudeman, Sources of Plutarch's Cicero, Philadelphia, 1902; Sillier, Cicero of Arpinum, New Haven, 1914, and Annals of Caesar,

New

York, 1911. B.

New

PERRJN.

Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. November, 1918.

vu

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

(2) (3)

Volume (4)

Volume VL

I,

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

Themistocles and

(22) (7)

Paulus.

Comparison.

Volume

Demosthenes and Cicero,

(17)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(13)

Compai'ison. Cimon and Lucullus.

Comparison.

VOLUMB (5) Pericles

Volume (15) Sertorius

Comparison, Phocion and Cato the Younger,

(21)

Volume IX. Demetrius and Antony, Comparison. Pyrrhus and Cains Marius,

III.

Comparison. Nicias and Crassus.

(11)

Comparison.

Volume

IV.

(19)

Alcibiades and Coriola-

(6)

nus.

Comparison, (12)

Lysander and Sulla. Comparison.

VIII.

and Eumenes,

(18)

and Fabius Max-

im us. (14)

VII.

(20)

Camillas. (9)

Dion and Brutus. Comparison, Timoleon and Aemilius

(10)

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

Comparison.

Volume (16) Agesilaiis (8)

Vlll

Volume XL

V.

and Pompey.

Comparison, Pelopidas and Marcellus. Comparison.

(24) Aratus.

(28) Artaxerxes. (25) Galba. (26)

Otho.

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 Gate the Elder.

(10) (11)

Philopoemen and Flamininus. Pyrrhus and Caius Marias.

(12)

Lysander and

(18)

Cimon and Lucullus.

(14) Nicias

Sulla.

and Crassus.

(15) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

(17)

and Pompey. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

(18)

Phocion and Calo the Younger.

(16) Agesilaiis

(19)

(20)

(21) (22)

Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus.

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

(23) Artaxerxes. (24) Aratua. (25)

Galba.

(26)

Otho.

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