Plutarch's Lives, Volume VI: Dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus (Loeb Classical Library No. 98)

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PLUTAKCH'S LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

BERNADOTTE PERRIN IN ELEVEN

VOLUMES

VI

DION AND BRUTUS TIMOLEON AND AEMILIUS PAULU8

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

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WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD MOMMV

First printed 1918 Reprinted 1943, 1954

Printed in Great Britain

CONTENTS PAOB

PREFATORY NOTE

ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN THIS EDITION

VJi

...

TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES

ix

X

DION

1

BRUTUS

]25

COMPARISON OF DION AND BRUTUS

249

TIMOLEON

259

AEMILIUS PAULUS

357

COMPARISON OF TIMOLEON AND AEMILIUS PAULUS DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES

.

.

.

459 467

PREFATORY NOTE As in the preceding volumes of this series, agreement between the Sintenis (Teubner, 1873-1875) and Bekker (Tauchnitz, 1855-1857) editions of the Parallel Lives has been taken as the basis for the text.

Any

preference of the one to the other, and

any departure from both, have been indicated in the brief critical notes.

An

abridged account of the

manuscripts and editions of Plutarch's Lives may

be found in the Introduction to the

None

of the

contained in

Lives

in

first

this

volume.

volume

is presented of two oldest either the and best

No attempt has been made, naturally, manuscripts. to furnish either a diplomatic text or a full critical For these, the

apparatus.

the

reader must

edition

referred

to

Sintenis

(Leipzig, 1839-1846,

major

4

of

still

be

the Lives by

voll.,

8vo),

The

reading which follows the colon in the critical notes is that of the Teubner Sintenis, and also, unless otherwise stated

Bekker,

in

the

note,

of

the Tauchnitz

PREFATORY NOTE Some

use has been

made

of the Siefert-Blass

edition of the

and

also

of

Timoleon (Leipzig, Teubner, 1879), Holden's edition of the same Life

(Cambridge, Pitt Press Series, 1889). All the standard translations of the Lives have

been carefully compared and

utilized, including that

of the Brutus by Professor Long. B.

New Haven,

Connecticut, U.S.A.

December, 1917.

PERRIN.

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

(2)

(3)

Volume (4)

Volume

I.

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

(22) (7)

Paulus.

Comparison.

Volume

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(17)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

Camillus. (9)

Aristides and Elder.

Cato the

Cimon and

Lucullus. (18)

Comparison.

Volume (5)

III.

Pericles and Fabius imus.

Nicias and Crassus.

(21) (11)

Comparison.

Volume (6)

Comparison. Phocion and Cato the Younger.

(19)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

Lysander and

IX.

Demetrius and Antony. Comparison. PyrrhusandCaiusMariua.

Volume IV.

X.

Agis and Cleomenes, and and Caius Tiberius Gracchus.

Comparison.

Comparison. (12)

VIII.

and Eumenea.

Volume

Max-

Comparison. (14)

Volume (15) Sertorius

Comparison. (13)

VII.

(20) II.

Themistocles and

VI.

Dion and Brutus. Comparison. Timoleon and Aemilius

Sulla.

(10)

Philopoemen and ininus.

Comparison.

Comparison.

Volume (16) Agesilaiis (8)

V.

and Pompey.

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellus. Comparison.

Volume (23) Aratus.

(24) Artaxerxes. (25) Galba. (26) Otho.

XI.

Flam-

THE TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES. (1)

Theseus and Romulus.

(2)

Lycurgus and Numa.

(3)

Solon and Publicola.

(4)

Themistocles and Camillus.

(5)

Pericles

(6)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

(7)

Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus.

and Fabius Maximus.

(8)

Pelopidas and Marcellus.

(9)

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

(12)

Philopoemen and Flamininus, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius. Lysander and Sulla.

(13)

Cimon and Lucullus.

(10) (11)

(14) Nicias

and Crassus.

(15) Sertorius

and Eumenes.

(17)

and Pompey. Alexander and Julius Caesar.

(18)

Phocion and Cato 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) Aratus. (24)

Artaxerxes.

(25) Galba.

(26) Otho.

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