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| Introduction | |
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Introduction |
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Plutarch's desire to make his subject's 'habit of |
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| Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC) | |
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Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC) |
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Soon after, an overture was made to him by the que |
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From Crete he sailed to Asia |
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Amongst the many changes and alterations which Lyc |
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After the creation of the thirty senators |
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So there was now no more means of purchasing forei |
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This last ordinance in particular exasperated the |
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Lycurgus would never reduce his laws into writing |
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These public processions of the maidens |
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Lycurgus allowed a man who was advanced in years a |
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After they were twelve years old |
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Their lovers and favourers, too, had a share in th |
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Nor was their instruction in music and verse |
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To return to the Lacedaemonians |
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The senate, as I said before, consisted of those w |
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When he perceived that his more important institut |
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Themistocles (527-460 BC) |
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It is said that Themistocles |
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He went beyound all men in the passion for distinc |
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Having taken upon himself the command of the Athen |
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Now, though Xerxes had already passed through Dori |
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Eurybiades, by the reason of the greatness of Spar |
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Themistocles, knowing the generosity of Aristides |
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| Themistocles (527-460 BC) | |
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After this eas-fight, Xerxes, enraged at his ill-f |
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He was, indeed, by nature, a great lover of honour |
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When Pausanias went about this treasonable design |
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Thucydides says, that, passing over land to the Ae |
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When he was introduced to the king |
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Themistocles replied, that a man's discourse was l |
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But when Egypt revolted, being assisted by the Ath |
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| Pericles (495-429 BC) | |
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Pericles (495-429 BC) |
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For this man, Pericles entertained an extraordinar |
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He immediately entered |
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Finding himself come sort of his competitor, Cimon |
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Cimon, while he was admiral |
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Pericles on the other hand |
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Phidias had the oversight of all the works |
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At length, coming to a final contest with Thucydid |
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Of all his expeditions |
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For, in the first place, the Euboeans revolted |
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Pericles, however, was particularly charged with h |
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After this was over, the Peloponnesian war beginni |
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The people receiving and admitting these accusatio |
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In the first place, the pestilential disease |
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Alcibiades (450-404 BC) |
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Unawares to himself |
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Whilst he was very young |
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He had great advantages for entering public life |
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| Alcibiades (450-404 BC) | |
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Alcibiades was not less disturbed at the distincti |
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When they were met |
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After this battle at Mantinea |
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The truth is, his liberalities, his public shows |
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Together with Alcibiades |
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Alcibiades perceived the malice of this postponeme |
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The information against him was conceived in this |
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At Sparta, he was devoted to athletic exercises |
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Thus Alcibiades, quitting the interests of the Spa |
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Alcibiades at once dispatched messengers to Samos |
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The people in the city were terrified into submiss |
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But about thirty days after, Alcibiades escaped fr |
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Alcibiades, as soon as he saw the torch lifted upi |
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And now Alcibiades began to desire to see his nati |
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But notwithstanding the affairs of Alcibiades went |
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How far his own inclinations led him to usurp sove |
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As soon as Alcibiades heard of this |
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Yet in this sad state of affairs |
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Lysander (439-395 BC) |
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Understanding that Cyrus, the king's son |
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But to those who loved honest and noble behaviour |
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But on the fifth day |
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Lysander with his fleet passed to Asia |
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Lysander, after this, sails out to Thrace |
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This ambitious temper was indeed only burdensome t |
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And having hardly and with difficulty obtained lea |
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| Lysander (439-395 BC) | |
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When King Agis died |
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Immediately, therefore, Lysander spurred him on to |
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Upon this he was sent ambassador to the Hellespont |
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And being now grown violent in his temper |
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Alexander (356-323 BC) |
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The statues that gave the best representation of A |
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The care of his education, as it might be presumed |
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After this, considering him to be of a temper easy |
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But the disorders of his family |
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When he came to Thebes |
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Then he went to Delphi |
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In the meantime Darius's captains having collected |
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This battle presently made a great change of affai |
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Darius was by this time upon his march from Susa |
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There was at this time in Darius's army a Macedoni |
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But as he was going to supper |
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Alexander, that he might refresh his army |
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This was a long and painful, and, in two respects, |
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Darius wrote him a letter |
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But to return to Alexander |
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His sword, which was the weapon he used most in fi |
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From hence he marched through the province of Baby |
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What she said was received with such universal lik |
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But when he perceived his favourites grow so luxur |
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He now, as we said, set forth to seek Darius |
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| Alexander (356-323 BC) | |
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And now with the flower of his army he marched int |
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Apprehending the Macedonians would be weary of pur |
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Noticing, also, that among his chief friends and f |
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But he, for what reason is uncertain |
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The king had a present of Grecian fruit brought hi |
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'We are sufficiently punished already' |
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Upon this, at last, Alexander, snatching a spear f |
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Alexander now intent upon his expedition into Indi |
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Nor did they judge amiss |
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This discourse pleased Alexander |
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Almost all the historians agree |
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Alexander was now eager to see the ocean |
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His voyage down the rivers took up seven months' t |
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At Gedrosia, his admiral, Nearchus |
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The thirty thousand boys whom he left behind him t |
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As he was upon his way to Babylon |
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But the journals give the following record |
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Demosthenes (384-322 BC) |
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As soon, therefore, as he was grown up to man's es |
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Whence then, may some say |
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However, finding it a hard matter |
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It was evident |
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But there was, it should seem |
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| Demosthenes (384-322 BC) | |
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Demosthenes had secret intelligence of the death o |
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It was not long after that Harpalus fled from Alex |
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Demosthenes resisted the inquisition |
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Yet it was no long time that he enjoyed his countr |
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| Pyrrhus (329-272 BC) | |
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Pyrrhus (329-272 BC) |
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When he was twelve years old |
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From this time he began to revolve many and vast p |
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After this battle, Pyrrhus |
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But Lysimachus now arriving, and claiming the defe |
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There was one Cineas, a Thessalian |
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And first, he sent away Cineas to the Tarentines |
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He now received intelligence that Laevinus |
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This made Pyrrhus use greater caution |
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Then Caius Fabricius came in embassy from the Roma |
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The Romans, not having those advantages of retreat |
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And being elevated with his good fortune |
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He divided his army into two parts |
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His affairs being yet unsettled |
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Pyrrhus himself, in person |
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Pyrrhus, upon the coming of these additional force |
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In the dead of the night |
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Pyrrhus, seeing this storm and confusion of things |
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