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 MOMLVIII

First printed 1919 Repiinted, 1928., 1949, 1958

912624

Printed in Great Britain

CONTENTS PAGE

PKEFATOny NOTE

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

DEMOSTHENES CICERO

VI

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.

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ix 1

81

COMPAPHSON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO

211

ALEXANDER

223

CAESAR

441

DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES

611

V

PREFATORY NOTE As

in the

preceding volumes of this

ment between the

series, agree-

Sintenis (Teubner, 1873-1875)

and Bekker (Tauchnitz, 1855-1857) editions of the Parallel Lives has

Any

text.

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 Plutarch

may be found None

in the Introduction to the first 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 fore

rests

principally

on

(F"").

the

Their text thereParis

manuscripts

Nos. 1671, 1673, and 1674 (A CD), although in a few instances weight has been given to readings from

the Codex Matritensis (M^), on the authority of the collations of Charles

Graux and

Demosthenes and Cicero. naturally, to furnish VI

his editions of the

No attempt

has been made,

either a diplomatic text or a

;

PREFATORY NOTE full critical

apparatus.

For these, the reader must

be referred to the major edition of Sintenis (Leipzig^

1839-1846, 4

voll., 8vo),

or to the rather inaccessible

and

text of the Lives by Lindskog

Ziegler, in the

Teubner Library of Greek and Latin texts Fasc.

1.

was published in 1915).

edition, the reading

brief critical notes

and

also, unless

is

(Vol. III.,

In the present

which follows the colon

in the

that of the Teubner Sintenis,

otherwise stated in the note, of the

Tauchnitz Bekker. All

been

the standard translations of the Lives have carefully

compared

and

utilized,

including

those of the Cicero and Caesar by Professor Long.

And more

or less use has been

ing works

:

Cich'oUy Paris,

DemostheneSy

Gudeman,

made

of the follow-

Graux, Vie de Demosthene, and

1883 and 1882

;

Vie de

Holden, Plutarch's

Cambridge, Pitt Press

Series,

1893

Sources of Plutarch's Cicero, Philadelphia,

1902; Sillier, Cicero of Arpinum, New Haven, 1914, and Annals of Caesar, New York, 1911. B.

New Haven,

PERRIN.

Connecticut, U.S.A.

November

y

1918.

vii

ORDER OP THE PARALLEL LIVES IN THIS EDITION IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF THE GREEK LIVES. Volume

I.

(7)

(1)

(2)

(3)

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

Volume (4)

II.

Themistocles and

(22)

Volume

VI.

Dion and Brutus. Comparison. Timoleon and Aemilius Paul us. Comparison.

(17)

Volume

VII.

(20)

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(15)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius

Camillus.

Caesar. (18)

(9)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

Volume

(13)

Cimon and

Comparison. Phocion and Cato the Younger.

Lucullus.

Comparison.

Volume (5)

Pericles

III.

and Fabius Max-

(19)

IX.

(11)

(10)

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

)

Comparison. Nicias and Crassus.

Volume

Demetrius and Antony. Comparison. Pyrrhus and Caius Marius.

(21

imus. (14)

VIII.

Sertorius and Eumenes.

Comparison.

Comparison. (16) (6)

Volume

IV.

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

Comparison. (12)

Lysander and

Sulla.

ininus.

Comparison.

Comparison.

Volume Agesilaiis (8)

Volume XL

V.

and Pompey.

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellus. Comparison.

(24) Aratus.

(23) Artaxerxes. (25) (26)

Galba. 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 Paulas.

(8)

Pelopidas and Marcellus.

(9)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(10)

Philopoemen and Flamininus.

(11)

Pyrrhus and Caius Marius.

(12)

Lysander and

(13)

Cimon and Lucullus.

(14) Nicias

Sulla.

and Crassus.

(15) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

(16) Agesilaiis

and Pompey.

(17)

Alexander and Julius Caesar.

(18)

Phocion and Cato the Younger.

(19)

Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus.

(20)

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(21)

Demetrius and Antony.

(22)

Dion and Brutus.

(23) Artaxerxes. (24)

A rat us.

(25)

Galba.

(26)

Otho.

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