Plutarch's Lives, Volume III: Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus (Loeb Classical Library No. 65)

THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY T. E.

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PH.D., LL.D.

PAGE, LITT.D. W. H. D. ROUSE,

PLUTARCH'S LIVES III

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PLUTAKCH'S LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

BERNADOTTE PERRIN IN TEN VOLUMES III

PERICLES AND FABIUS MAXIMUS NICIAS AND CRASSUS

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Reprinted

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PREFATORY NOTE As in the preceding volumes of this series, agreement between the Sintenis (Teubner, 1873-1875) and Bekker (Tauchnitz, 1855-1857) texts of the Parallel Lives has

Any

been taken as the

basis for the text.

preference of the one to the other, where they

and any departure from both, have been indicated in the critical notes. The more important ameliorations of the text which have been secured differ,

by collations of Codex Parisinus 1676 (F*) and Codex The Seitenstettensis (S), have been introduced. importance of these MSS. is explained in the Introduction to the first volume. The text-

relative

tradition

of

the

chapters

of the

Crassus

(xv.-

in the Parthian War attrixxxiii.) which appear buted to Appian (Fseudo-Appian), is seldom, if ever, superior to that of the same chapters in Plutarch. No attempt has been made, naturally, to furnish

either a diplomatic text or a full critical apparatus. follows the colon in the critical

The reading which

is that of the Teubner Sintenis, and also, unless otherwise stated in the note, of the Tauchnitsi

notes

Bekker.

PREFATORY NOTE Among

editions of special Lives included in this

volume should be noted that of Fuhr, Themistokles und

in the Haupt-Sauppe and that of Blass, Themistokles und Perikles, Leipzig, 1883, in the Teubner These editions bring F* series of annotated texts. Perikles,

series of

and S text.

Berlin,

1880,

annotated texts

;

into rightful prominence as a basis for the Holden's edition of the Nicias, in the Pitt

Press series, Cambridge, 1887, has also been found brief bibliography for the study of

useful.

A

Plutarch

msy be found

first

in the Introduction to the

volume.

The

translations of the Pericles

and of the Nicias

have already appeared in my Plutarch's Cimon and Pericles (New York, 1910), and Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades (New York, 1912), and are reproduced here (with only slight changes) by the generous consent of the publishers, the Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.

The

translations

of the

Fabius Maximus and of the Crassus appear here for the first time. All the standard translations of the

Uves have been

carefully

compared and

utilized,

including that of the Crassus by Professor Long. B.

New

Havkn, Connecticot, U.S.A. June, 1915.

PERRIN.

CONTENTS PAOE

PRKKATORY NOTE

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

Viu

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PERICLES

1

FABIUS MAXIMC8

COMPARISON OF PERICLES AND

ix

117

MAXIMUS

FAIIIUS

.

.

.

198

NICIAS

207

CRASSUS

313

COMPARISON OF NICIAS AND CRASSC3 DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES

,

424

439

V"

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

(2)

(3)

I.

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

(22) (7)

Volume VI. Dion and Brutus. Comparison. Timoluon and Aemilius Paulus.

Comparison. (20)

Demosthenes and Cicero. Comparison.

Volume IL (4)

Volume

Themistocles and

(17)

Camillus. (9)

Vll.

Alexander and Julius

V

Caesar.

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(15) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

Comparison.

Comparison. (13)

Cimon and

Lucullus.

Comparison.

Volume (5)

(18) III.

Pericles and Fabius

Max-

(21)

Demetrius and Antony. Comparison.

(11)

Pyrrhns and Caius Marius.

imus.

Comparison. (14) Nicias

Volume

and Crassus.

Comparison.

Volume (6)

IV.

(19)

Alcibiades and Coriola-

Comparison. (12)

Volume VIII. Phocion and Cato th« Younger.

Lysander and Sulla. Comparison.

(10)

Agis and Cleomenes, and and Caiua Tiberius Gracchus. Comparison.

Volume X. Philopoemen ami ininus.

Volume V. and Pompey

(16) Agesilaus (8)

Comparison. .

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellos. Comparison.

('2S) (•-'4)

ArtAxerxea. Aratus.

(2o) Gallta.

(26)

IX.

Otho.

Flam-

TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES. (1)

Theseus and Romulus.

(2)

Lycurgus and Numa.

(3)

Solon and Publicola.

(4)

Themistocles and Camillus.

(5)

Pericles

and Fabius Maximus.

(6) Alcibiades and Coriolanus. (7)

(8)

Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus. Pelopidas and Marcellus. and Cato the Ehler.

(9) Aristides

(10) Philopoenien (11)

(12) (13)

(14)

and Flaniininus.

Pyrrhus and Cuius Marius. Ly Sander and Sulla.

Cimon and Lucullus. Nicias and Crassus.

(15) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

(17)

and Pompey, Alexander and Julius Caesar.

(18)

Phocion and Calo the Younger.

(19)

Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus.

(16) Agesilaus

(20)

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(21)

Demetrius and An'.ony.

(22)

Dion and Brutus.

(23) Artaxerxes. (24) Aratus. (25) Galba. (26)

Otho.

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