Plutarch
Parallel Lives
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Table of Contents
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans - Volume 1
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans - Volume 2
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans - Volume 1
Comparison of Romulus with Theseus
Comparison of Numa with Lycurgus
Comparison of Poplicola with Solon
Comparison of Pericles with Fabius
Comparison of Alcibiades with Coriolanus
Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus
Comparison of Pelopidas with Marcellus
Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato.
Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus
Comparison of Lysander with Sylla
Comparison of Lucullus with Cimon
Theseus
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so, in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off, Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no
