Plutarch's Lives

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Otho”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. The new emperor went early in the morning to the capitol, and sacrificed; and, having...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Galba”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. Iphicrates the Athenian used to say that it is best to have a mercenary soldier...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Artaxerxes”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. The first Artaxerxes, among all the kings of Persia the most remarkable for a gentle...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Aratus”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. The philosopher Chrysippus, O Polycrates, quotes an ancient proverb, not as really it should be,...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Comparison of Dion and Brutus”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. There are noble points in abundance in the characters of these...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Marcus Brutus”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. Marcus Brutus was descended from that Junius Brutus to whom the ancient Romans erected...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Comparison of Demetrius and Antony”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. As both are great examples of the vicissitudes of fortune, let...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Antony”, Plutarch’s Lives, 75 A.C.E. The grandfather of Antony was the famous pleader, whom Marius put to death for having...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Demetrius”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. Ingenious men have long observed a resemblance between the arts and the bodily senses. And...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. These are the most memorable circumstances recorded in history of Demosthenes...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Cicero”, Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans," 75 A.C.E. It is generally said, that Helvia, the mother of...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Demosthenes”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E.     Whoever it was, Sosius, that wrote the poem in honor of Alcibiades, upon his winning...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. Having given an account severally of...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Caius Gracchus”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. Caius Gracchus, at first, either for fear of his brother’s enemies, or designing to...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Tiberius Gracchus”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. Having completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Cleomenes”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. Thus fell Agis. His brother Archidamus was too quick for Leonidas, and saved himself by...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Agis”, 75 A.C.E. The fable of Ixion, who, embracing a cloud instead of Juno, begot the Centaurs, has been ingeniously...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Cato, the Younger”, 75 A.C.E. THE FAMILY of Cato derived its first luster from his great-grandfather Cato, whose virtue gained...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Phocion”, 75 A.C.E. Demades, the orator, when in the height of the power which he obtained at Athens by advising...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Caesar”, 75 A.C.E. After Sylla became master of Rome, he wished to make Cæsar put away his wife Cornelia, daughter...