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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY T. E.
E.
CAPPS,
PH.D., LL.D.
PAGE, LITT.D. W. H. D. ROUSE,
PLUTARCH'S LIVES III
litt.d.
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, agreement between the Sintenis (Teubner, 1873-1875) and Bekker (Tauchnitz, 1855-1857) texts of the Parallel Lives has
Any
been taken as the
basis for the text.
preference of the one to the other, where they
and any departure from both, have been indicated in the critical notes. The more important ameliorations of the text which have been secured differ,
by collations of Codex Parisinus 1676 (F*) and Codex The Seitenstettensis (S), have been introduced. importance of these MSS. is explained in the Introduction to the first volume. The text-
relative
tradition
of
the
chapters
of the
Crassus
(xv.-
in the Parthian War attrixxxiii.) which appear 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. follows the colon in the critical
The reading which
is that of the Teubner Sintenis, and also, unless otherwise stated in the note, of the Tauchnitsi
notes
Bekker.
PREFATORY NOTE Among
editions of special Lives included in this
volume should be noted that of Fuhr, Themistokles und
in the Haupt-Sauppe and that of Blass, Themistokles und Perikles, Leipzig, 1883, in the Teubner These editions bring F* series of annotated texts. Perikles,
series of
and S text.
Berlin,
1880,
annotated texts
;
into rightful prominence as a basis for the Holden's edition of the Nicias, in the Pitt
Press series, Cambridge, 1887, has also been found brief bibliography for the study of
useful.
A
Plutarch
msy be found
first
in the Introduction to the
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 reproduced 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.
New
Havkn, Connecticot, U.S.A. June, 1915.
PERRIN.
CONTENTS PAOE
PRKKATORY NOTE
V
ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN THIS EDITION TRADITIONAL ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES
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PERICLES
1
FABIUS MAXIMC8
COMPARISON OF PERICLES AND
ix
117
MAXIMUS
FAIIIUS
.
.
.
198
NICIAS
207
CRASSUS
313
COMPARISON OF NICIAS AND CRASSC3 DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES
,
424
439
V"
ORDER OF THE PARALLEL LIVES IN" THIS EDITION IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF THE GREKK LIVES. Volume (1)
(2)
(3)
I.
Theseus and Romulus. Comparison. Lycurgus and Numa. Comparison. Solon and Publicola. Comparison.
(22) (7)
Volume VI. Dion and Brutus. Comparison. Timoluon and Aemilius Paulus.
Comparison. (20)
Demosthenes and Cicero. Comparison.
Volume IL (4)
Volume
Themistocles and
(17)
Camillus. (9)
Vll.
Alexander and Julius
V
Caesar.
Aristides and Cato the Elder.
(15) Sertorius
and Eumenes.
Comparison.
Comparison. (13)
Cimon and
Lucullus.
Comparison.
Volume (5)
(18) III.
Pericles and Fabius
Max-
(21)
Demetrius and Antony. Comparison.
(11)
Pyrrhns and Caius Marius.
imus.
Comparison. (14) Nicias
Volume
and Crassus.
Comparison.
Volume (6)
IV.
(19)
Alcibiades and Coriola-
Comparison. (12)
Volume VIII. Phocion and Cato th« Younger.
Lysander and Sulla. Comparison.
(10)
Agis and Cleomenes, and and Caiua Tiberius Gracchus. Comparison.
Volume X. Philopoemen ami ininus.
Volume V. and Pompey
(16) Agesilaus (8)
Comparison. .
Comparison. Pelopidas and Marcellos. Comparison.
('2S) (•-'4)
ArtAxerxea. Aratus.
(2o) Gallta.
(26)
IX.
Otho.
Flam-
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)
(8)
Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus. Pelopidas and Marcellus. and Cato the Ehler.
(9) Aristides
(10) Philopoenien (11)
(12) (13)
(14)
and Flaniininus.
Pyrrhus and Cuius Marius. Ly Sander and Sulla.
Cimon and Lucullus. Nicias and Crassus.
(15) Sertorius
and Eumenes.
(17)
and Pompey, Alexander and Julius Caesar.
(18)
Phocion and Calo the Younger.
(19)
Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus.
(16) Agesilaus
(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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