Plutarch's Lives, Volume IX: Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius (Loeb Classical Library No. 101)

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PLUTARCH'S LIVES IX

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PLUTARCH'S LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

BERNADOTTE PERRIN IN

ELEVEN VOLUMES IX

DEMETRIUS AND ANTONY PYRRHUS AND CAIUS MARIUS

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CONTENTS PAGE

PEBFATORY NOTE

ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES

vii

IN THIS EDITION

...

ix

TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES

X

DEMETRIUS

1

ANTONY

137

COMPARISON OF DEMETRIUS AND ANTONY

333

PYRRUUS

345

CAIUS MARIUS

463

DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES

....

-

601

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

been taken as the

basis for the

preference of one to the other, and an}'^^ important deviation from both, have been indicated. An abridged account of the manuscripts of Plutarch text.

Any

may be found in the Introduction to the first volume. Of the Lives presented in this volume, the last part of the Antony (from chapter Ixxvii.), and the Pyrrhtis and Maiius are contained in the Codex Sanger-

manensis tensis

but none in the Codex SeitenstetThese are the two oldest and most

(S^),

(S).

The readings of the manuscripts. excellent Paris manuscript No. 1676 (F*) are not No attempt has been accessible for any of them. authoritative

made, naturally, to furnish either a diplomatic text or a 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 new text of the Lives by Lindskog and Ziegler, in the Teubner Library of Greek and Latin texts (now vii

PREFATORY NOTE In the present edition, the reading half published). which follows the colon in the brief critical notes is that of the

Teubner

Sintenis,

and

also, unless other-

wise stated in the note, of the Tauchnitz Bekker. The Siefert-Blass edition of the Pyrrhus, in the

Teubner series of annotated Greek and Latin has been of great service. All the standard translations

been carefully

texts,

of the Lives have

and

utilized, including compared those of the A7itony and Marius by Professor Long.

B.

New Haven,

Connecticut, U.S.A.

June, 1920.

\ni

PERRIN.

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

(2)

(3)

Volume

I.

Theseus and Romulus. Comparison. Lycurgus and Numa. Comparison.

(22) (7)

Solon and Publicola.

Comparison.

Volume (4)

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(17)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

Camillus. (9)

(13)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

Comparison. Cimon and LucuUus.

Volume

III.

(21)

Comparison.

and Crassus.

(11)

Comparison.

Volume (6)

IV.

(19)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

Comparison. 12)

Lysander and Sulla. Comparison.

(10)

(8)

and Ponipey.

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellus. Comparison.

Comparison. Phocion and Cato the Younger. IX.

Demetrius and Antony. Comparison. PyrrhusandCaiusMarius.

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

Comparison.

Volume

Volume V. 16) Agesilaiis

VIII.

and Eumenes.

Volume

and Fabius Max-

imus. (14) Nicias

Volume (15) Sertorius

(18)

Comparison.

(5) Pericles

Comparison. Timoleon and Aemilius Paul us. Comparison. Volume VII.

(20) II.

Themistooles and

VI.

Dion and Brutus.

XI.

(24) Aratus.

Artaxerxes Galba. (26) Otho.

(23)

(25)

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)

Tinioleon and Aemilius Paulus.

and Marcellus.

(8)

Pelopi