Plutarch

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch's Morals: “On Moral Virtue”, 75 A.C.E. § i. I propose to discuss what is called and appears to be moral...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch's Morals: “Virtue and Vice”, 75 A.C.E. § i. Clothes seem to warm a man, not by throwing out heat themselves...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch's Morals: “That Virtue May Be Taught”, 75 A.C.E. § i. As to virtue we deliberate and dispute whether good sense,...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch's Morals: “ Consolatory Lettter To His Wife”, 75 A.C.E. § i. Plutarch to his wife sends greeting. The messenger that you sent...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch's Morals: “Conjugal Precepts: Greeting To Pollianus And Eurydice.”, 75 A.C.E. After the customary marriage rites, by which, the Priestess of...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch's Morals: “On Love”, 75 A.C.E. Flavianus And Autobulus, The Openers Of The Dialogue, Are Brothers. The Other Speakers Are Their...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch's Morals: II “On Love To One's Offspring”, 75 A.C.E. § i. Appeals to foreign law-courts were first devised among the...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch's Morals: “On Education”, 75 A.C.E. § i. Come let us consider what one might say on the education of free...

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: “Dion”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. If it be true, Sosius Senecio, that, as Simonides tells us— “Of the Corinthians Troy does...

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...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Plutarch: “Alexander”, Plutarch's Lives, 75 A.C.E. It being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of Cæsar,...