LIVES WITH AN ENGLISH TRPLUTARCH’S ANSLATION BY BERNADOTTE PERRIN,PERICLES AND FABIUS MAXIMUS, NICIAS AND CRASSUS

450 Pages·1959·14.27 MB·English

by  PLUTARCH

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.
CONTENTS
PAOE
PRKKATORY NOTE V
ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN THIS EDITION Viu
TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES .... ix
PERICLES 1 V"
FABIUS MAXIMC8 117
COMPARISON OF PERICLES AND FAIIIUS MAXIMUS . . . 198
NICIAS 207
CRASSUS 313
COMPARISON OF NICIAS AND CRASSC3 , 424
DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES 439
ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN" THIS
EDITION IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE
OF THE GREKK LIVES.
Volume I. Volume VI.
(1) Theseus and Romulus. (22) Dion and Brutus.
Comparison. Comparison.
(2) Lycurgus and Numa. (7) Timoluon and Aemilius
Paulus.
Comparison.
(3) Solon and Publicola. Comparison.
Comparison. (20) Demosthenes and Cicero.
Comparison.
Volume IL
Volume Vll.
(4) Themistocles and (17) Alexander and Julius V
Camillus. Caesar.
(9) Aristides and Cato the (15) Sertorius and Eumenes.
Elder.
Comparison.
Comparison.
(13) Cimon and Lucullus. Volume VIII.
Comparison. (18) Phocion and Cato th«
Younger.
Volume III.
(5) Pericles and Fabius Max- (21) Demetrius and Antony.
imus. Comparison.
Comparison. Volume IX.
(14)
CNoimcipasriasnodn.Crassus. (11) Pyrrhns and Caius Marius.
Volume IV. (19) Agis and Cleomenes, and
Tiberius and Caiua
(6) Alcibiades and Coriola- Gracchus.
Comparison.
Comparison.
(12) Lysander and Sulla. Volume X.
Comparison. (10) Philopoemen ami Flam-
ininus.
Volume V.
Comparison.
(16) Agesilaus and Pompey. ('2S) ArtAxerxea.
Comparison. (•-'4) Aratus.
(8) Pelopidas and Marcellos. (2o) Gallta.
Comparison. (26) Otho.
TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE
PARALLEL LIVES.
(1) Theseus and Romulus.
(2) Lycurgus and Numa.
(3) Solon and Publicola.
(4) Themistocles and Camillus.
(5) Pericles and Fabius Maximus.
(6) Alcibiades and Coriolanus.
(7) Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus.
(8) Pelopidas and Marcellus.
(9) Aristides and Cato the Ehler.
and Flaniininus.
(10) Philopoenien
(11) Pyrrhus and Cuius Marius.
(12) LySander and Sulla.
(13) Cimon and Lucullus.
(14) Nicias and Crassus.
(15) Sertorius and Eumenes.
(16) Agesilaus and Pompey,
(17) Alexander and Julius Caesar.
(18) Phocion and Calo the Younger.
(19) Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius
Gracchus.
(20) Demosthenes and Cicero.
(21) Demetrius and An'.ony.
(22) Dion and Brutus.
(23) Artaxerxes.
(24) Aratus.
(25) Galba.
(26) Otho.
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