L065 - Plutarch -- Lives III: Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
EDITED BY
T. E. PAGE, LITT.D.
E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. W. H. D. ROUSE, litt.d.
PLUTARCH'S LIVES
III
PLUTAKCH'S
LIVES
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
BERNADOTTE PERRIN
IN TEN VOLUMES
III
PERICLES AND FABIUS MAXIMUS
NICIAS AND CRASSUS
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LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
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First printed 1916
Reprinted 1932
Printed
in Great Britain at
The fyindmill Press, KingswooJ, Surrey
PREFATORY NOTE
As in the preceding volumes of this series, agree-
ment between the Sintenis (Teubner, 1873-1875)
and Bekker (Tauchnitz, 1855-1857) texts of the
Parallel Lives has been taken as the basis for the text.
Any preference of the one to the other, where they
differ, and any departure from both, have been indi-
cated in the critical notes. The more important
ameliorations of the text which have been secured
by collations of Codex Parisinus 1676 (F*) and Codex
Seitenstettensis (S), have been introduced. The
relative importance of these MSS. is explained in
the Introduction to the first volume. The text-
tradition of the chapters of the Crassus (xv.-
xxxiii.) which appear in the Parthian War attri-
buted to Appian (Fseudo-Appian), is seldom, if ever,
superior to that of the same chapters in Plutarch.
No attempt has been made, naturally, to furnish
either a diplomatic text or a full critical apparatus.
The reading which follows the colon in the critical
notes is that of the Teubner Sintenis, and also,
unless otherwise stated in the note, of the Tauchnitsi
Bekker.
PREFATORY NOTE
Among editions of special Lives included in this
volume should be noted that of Fuhr, Themistokles
und Perikles, Berlin, 1880, in the
Haupt-Sauppe
series of annotated texts ; and that of Blass, Themi-
stokles und Perikles, Leipzig, 1883, in the Teubner
series of annotated texts. These editions bring F*
and S into rightful prominence as a basis for the
text. Holden's edition of the Nicias, in the Pitt
Press series, Cambridge, 1887, has also been found
useful. A brief bibliography for the study of
Plutarch be found in the Introduction to the
msy
first volume.
The translations of the Pericles and of the Nicias
have already appeared in my Plutarch's Cimon and
Pericles (New York, 1910), and Plutarch's Nicias
and Alcibiades (New York, 1912), and are re-
produced here (with only slight changes) by the
generous consent of the publishers, the Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons. The translations of the
Fabius Maximus and of the Crassus appear here for
the first time. All the standard translations of the
Uves have been carefully compared and utilized,
including that of the Crassus by Professor Long.
B. PERRIN.
New Havkn, Connecticot, U.S.A.
June, 1915.