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Introduction: Plutarch's desire to make his subject's 'habit of mind understood'
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC)
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): Soon after, an overture was made to him by the queen,
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): From Crete he sailed to Asia
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): Amongst the many changes and alterations which Lycurgus made
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): After the creation of the thirty senators
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): So there was now no more means of purchasing foreign goods
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): This last ordinance in particular exasperated the wealthier men.
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): Lycurgus would never reduce his laws into writing
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): These public processions of the maidens
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): Lycurgus allowed a man who was advanced in years and had a young wife
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): After they were twelve years old
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): Their lovers and favourers, too, had a share in the young boy's honour or disgrace
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): Nor was their instruction in music and verse
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): To return to the Lacedaemonians
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): The senate, as I said before, consisted of those who were Lycurgus's chief aiders
Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC): When he perceived that his more important institutions had taken root in the minds of his countrymen
Themistocles (527-460 BC)
Themistocles (527-460 BC): It is said that Themistocles
Themistocles (527-460 BC): He went beyound all men in the passion for distinction
Themistocles (527-460 BC): Having taken upon himself the command of the Athenian forces
Themistocles (527-460 BC): Now, though Xerxes had already passed through Doris
Themistocles (527-460 BC): Eurybiades, by the reason of the greatness of Sparta
Themistocles (527-460 BC): Themistocles, knowing the generosity of Aristides
Themistocles (527-460 BC): After this eas-fight, Xerxes, enraged at his ill-fortune
Themistocles (527-460 BC): He was, indeed, by nature, a great lover of honour
Themistocles (527-460 BC): When Pausanias went about this treasonable design
Themistocles (527-460 BC): Thucydides says, that, passing over land to the Aegaean Sea
Themistocles (527-460 BC): When he was introduced to the king
Themistocles (527-460 BC): Themistocles replied, that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet,
Themistocles (527-460 BC): But when Egypt revolted, being assisted by the Athenians,
Pericles (495-429 BC)
Pericles (495-429 BC): For this man, Pericles entertained an extraordinary esteem
Pericles (495-429 BC): He immediately entered
Pericles (495-429 BC): Finding himself come sort of his competitor, Cimon
Pericles (495-429 BC): Cimon, while he was admiral
Pericles (495-429 BC): Pericles on the other hand
Pericles (495-429 BC): Phidias had the oversight of all the works
Pericles (495-429 BC): At length, coming to a final contest with Thucydides
Pericles (495-429 BC): Of all his expeditions
Pericles (495-429 BC): For, in the first place, the Euboeans revolted
Pericles (495-429 BC): Pericles, however, was particularly charged with having proposed to the assembly
Pericles (495-429 BC): After this was over, the Peloponnesian war beginning
Pericles (495-429 BC): The people receiving and admitting these accusations and complaints
Pericles (495-429 BC): In the first place, the pestilential disease
Alcibiades (450-404 BC)
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Unawares to himself
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Whilst he was very young
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): He had great advantages for entering public life
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Alcibiades was not less disturbed at the distinctions
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): When they were met
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): After this battle at Mantinea
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): The truth is, his liberalities, his public shows
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Together with Alcibiades
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Alcibiades perceived the malice of this postponement
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): The information against him was conceived in this form
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): At Sparta, he was devoted to athletic exercises
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Thus Alcibiades, quitting the interests of the Spartans
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Alcibiades at once dispatched messengers to Samos
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): The people in the city were terrified into submission
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): But about thirty days after, Alcibiades escaped from his keeprs
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Alcibiades, as soon as he saw the torch lifted upin the air
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): And now Alcibiades began to desire to see his native country again
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): But notwithstanding the affairs of Alcibiades went so prosperously
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): How far his own inclinations led him to usurp sovereign power
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): As soon as Alcibiades heard of this
Alcibiades (450-404 BC): Yet in this sad state of affairs
Lysander (439-395 BC)
Lysander (439-395 BC): Understanding that Cyrus, the king's son
Lysander (439-395 BC): But to those who loved honest and noble behaviour
Lysander (439-395 BC): But on the fifth day
Lysander (439-395 BC): Lysander with his fleet passed to Asia
Lysander (439-395 BC): Lysander, after this, sails out to Thrace
Lysander (439-395 BC): This ambitious temper was indeed only burdensome to the highest personages
Lysander (439-395 BC): And having hardly and with difficulty obtained leave
Lysander (439-395 BC): When King Agis died
Lysander (439-395 BC): Immediately, therefore, Lysander spurred him on to make an expedition into Asia
Lysander (439-395 BC): Upon this he was sent ambassador to the Hellespont
Lysander (439-395 BC): And being now grown violent in his temper
Alexander (356-323 BC)
Alexander (356-323 BC): The statues that gave the best representation of Alexander's person
Alexander (356-323 BC): The care of his education, as it might be presumed
Alexander (356-323 BC): After this, considering him to be of a temper easy to be led to his duty by reason
Alexander (356-323 BC): But the disorders of his family
Alexander (356-323 BC): When he came to Thebes
Alexander (356-323 BC): Then he went to Delphi
Alexander (356-323 BC): In the meantime Darius's captains having collected large roces
Alexander (356-323 BC): This battle presently made a great change of affairs to Alexander's advantage
Alexander (356-323 BC): Darius was by this time upon his march from Susa
Alexander (356-323 BC): There was at this time in Darius's army a Macedonian refugee
Alexander (356-323 BC): But as he was going to supper
Alexander (356-323 BC): Alexander, that he might refresh his army
Alexander (356-323 BC): This was a long and painful, and, in two respects, a dangerous journey
Alexander (356-323 BC): Darius wrote him a letter
Alexander (356-323 BC): But to return to Alexander
Alexander (356-323 BC): His sword, which was the weapon he used most in fight
Alexander (356-323 BC): From hence he marched through the province of Babylon
Alexander (356-323 BC): What she said was received with such universal liking and murmurs of applause
Alexander (356-323 BC): But when he perceived his favourites grow so luxurious
Alexander (356-323 BC): He now, as we said, set forth to seek Darius
Alexander (356-323 BC): And now with the flower of his army he marched into Hyrcania
Alexander (356-323 BC): Apprehending the Macedonians would be weary of pursuing the war
Alexander (356-323 BC): Noticing, also, that among his chief friends and favourites
Alexander (356-323 BC): But he, for what reason is uncertain
Alexander (356-323 BC): The king had a present of Grecian fruit brought him
Alexander (356-323 BC): 'We are sufficiently punished already'
Alexander (356-323 BC): Upon this, at last, Alexander, snatching a spear from one of the soldiers
Alexander (356-323 BC): Alexander now intent upon his expedition into India
Alexander (356-323 BC): Nor did they judge amiss
Alexander (356-323 BC): This discourse pleased Alexander
Alexander (356-323 BC): Almost all the historians agree
Alexander (356-323 BC): Alexander was now eager to see the ocean
Alexander (356-323 BC): His voyage down the rivers took up seven months' time
Alexander (356-323 BC): At Gedrosia, his admiral, Nearchus
Alexander (356-323 BC): The thirty thousand boys whom he left behind him to be taught
Alexander (356-323 BC): As he was upon his way to Babylon
Alexander (356-323 BC): But the journals give the following record
Demosthenes (384-322 BC)
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): As soon, therefore, as he was grown up to man's estate
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): Whence then, may some say
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): However, finding it a hard matter
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): It was evident
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): But there was, it should seem
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): Demosthenes had secret intelligence of the death of Philip
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): It was not long after that Harpalus fled from Alexander
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): Demosthenes resisted the inquisition
Demosthenes (384-322 BC): Yet it was no long time that he enjoyed his country after his return
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC)
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): When he was twelve years old
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): From this time he began to revolve many and vast projects in his thoughts
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): After this battle, Pyrrhus
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): But Lysimachus now arriving, and claiming the defeat of Demetrius
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): There was one Cineas, a Thessalian
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): And first, he sent away Cineas to the Tarentines
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): He now received intelligence that Laevinus
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): This made Pyrrhus use greater caution
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): Then Caius Fabricius came in embassy from the Romans
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): The Romans, not having those advantages of retreating
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): And being elevated with his good fortune
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): He divided his army into two parts
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): His affairs being yet unsettled
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): Pyrrhus himself, in person
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): Pyrrhus, upon the coming of these additional forces
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): In the dead of the night
Pyrrhus (329-272 BC): Pyrrhus, seeing this storm and confusion of things
by Nicholas Farrell
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