Plutarch's Lives, Volume XI: Aratus. Artaxerxes. Galba. Otho. General Index (Loeb Classical Library No. 103)

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PLUTARCH'S LIVES XI

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PLUTAKCH'S LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

BERNADOTTE PERRIN IN

ELEVEN VOLUMES XI

ARATUS, ARTAXERXES, GALBA AND OTHO INDEX TO ALL THE LIVES BY J.

W. COHOON

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First printed 1926 Reprinted 1943, 1954

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CONTENTS PAGE

ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES

IN THIS EDITION

TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES

ARATUS

.

.

.

vi

.

.

vil

1

ARTAXERXES

127

GALEA

205

OTHO

275

INDEX

321

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. II.

Themistocles and

(22) (7)

Paulus.

Volume

Aristides and Cato the Elder.

Cimon and

Demosthenes and Cicero.

(17)

Comparison. Alexander and Julius

(18)

Volume

III.

Pericles and Fabius

(21)

Comparison.

and Crassus.

(11)

Comparison.

Volume (6)

IV.

(19)

Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

Comparison. (12) Ly Sander and Sulla. Comparison.

(10)

VIII.

and Eumenes.

Comparison. Phocion and Cato the Younger.

Volume

Max-

im us. (14) Nicias

Volume (15) Sertorius

Lucullus.

Comparison.

(5)

VII.

(20)

Caesar.

Comparison. (13)

Comparison. Timoleon and Aemilius

Comparison.

Camillas. (9)

VI.

Dion and Brutus.

IX.

Demetrius and Antony. Comparison. Pyrrhus and Caius Marius.

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

Comparison.

Volume (16) Agesilaiis (8)

vi

V.

and Pompey.

Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellus. Comparison.

Volume (23) Aratus.

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

XI.

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 Cato the Elder.

(12)

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

(LS)

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.

(19)

Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus.

(16) Agesilaiis

(20)

(21) (22)

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

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

Otho.

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—

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fairest will

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