Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1J.M. Dent, 1961 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 34
Page 36
... round it . Then the founder fitted to a plough a brazen ploughshare , and , yoking together a bull and a cow , drove himself a deep line or furrow round the bounds ; while the business of those that followed after was to see that ...
... round it . Then the founder fitted to a plough a brazen ploughshare , and , yoking together a bull and a cow , drove himself a deep line or furrow round the bounds ; while the business of those that followed after was to see that ...
Page 85
... round the city in this manner , each of his relations and friends set a table before him , saying , “ The city honours you with this banquet ; " but he , instead of accepting , passed round to the common table where he formerly used to ...
... round the city in this manner , each of his relations and friends set a table before him , saying , “ The city honours you with this banquet ; " but he , instead of accepting , passed round to the common table where he formerly used to ...
Page 464
... round about . News of which being brought to Marcellus , leaving his colleague at Acerra with the foot and all the heavy arms and a third part of the horse , and carrying with him the rest of the horse and six hundred light - armed foot ...
... round about . News of which being brought to Marcellus , leaving his colleague at Acerra with the foot and all the heavy arms and a third part of the horse , and carrying with him the rest of the horse and six hundred light - armed foot ...
Contents
THE COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS | 56 |
NUMA POMPILIUS | 91 |
THE COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS | 114 |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accused action admiration Æmilius affairs afterwards Alcibiades amongst appeared Aristides arms army Athenians Athens banishment barbarians battle body Boeotia brought called Camillus camp captain carried Carthaginians Cato citizens command consul Corinthians courage danger daughter death decree desired divine enemy engaged Epaminondas Eurybiades Fabius father favour fear fell fight force fortune friends galleys Gauls gave give glory gods Greece Greeks hands Hannibal Hicetes honour horse hundred king Lacedæmonians land laws lived Lycurgus Marcellus Marcius Mardonius matter noble occasion oracle Pausanias Pelopidas Pericles person Pharnabazus Pisistratus Pittheus Plutarch Poplicola present received rest returned Romans Rome Romulus Sabines sacrifice sail Scipio seems senate sent ships Sicily slain soldiers Solon Spartans sword Syracusans Syracuse temper temple Thebans Themistocles Theseus things thought thousand Thucydides Timoleon told took tribunes triumph tyrant victory virtue Volscians whilst whole wife women young