Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volume 31819 |
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Achæans action affairs afterward Alcibiades Annibal Antigonus Antiochus appeared Archelaüs arms army Asia Athenians Athens attack barbarians battle Bocchus body Boeotia brought Cæsar called camp Cato Catulus cavalry Cimbri Cimon command consul consulship Crassus death defeated Demetrius despatched dreadful embassadors enemy enemy's engaged expedition favour fell fight Flaminius fled fleet forces fortune friends gained Gauls gave give Grecian Greece Greeks Gylippus hands honour horse hundred Jugurtha killed king king's Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians likewise Lucullus Lysander Macedon Macedonians manner Marius Metellus Mithridates Neoptolemus Nicias night occasion officers orator Parthians party passed Pausanias peace person Philip Philopomen Plutarch Pompey present prince prisoners Pyrrhus river Romans Rome sail seized senate sent ships Sicily soldiers soon Sparta Strabo Surena sword Sylla Syracusans thing thousand Thucyd Tigranes tion took town troops tyrant utmost valour victory walls whole young
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Page 86 - Think nothing gained," he cries, " till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky." . The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost...
Page 87 - And shows his miseries in distant lands ; Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 113 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Page 87 - On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, 'And all be mine beneath the polar sky.' The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 320 - Ptolemy the eunuch, seeing him carried along with the torrent, and happening to be on horseback, dismounted and gave him his. The Romans pressed hard upon him, and indeed came up time enough to have taken him. He was in fact almost in their hands ; but their avarice saved him.
Page 251 - Metella sickened and died. As the priests forbade him to approach her, and to have his house defiled with mourning, he sent her a bill of divorce, and ordered her to be carried to another house while the breath was in her body.
Page 105 - After the triumph, he was thrown into prison, where, whilst they were in haste to strip him, some tore his robe off his back, and others catching eagerly at his pendants, pulled off the tips of his ears with them. When he was thrust down naked into the dungeon, all wild and confused, he said with a frantic smile, " Heavens! how cold is this bath of yours...
Page 414 - From every stranger that landed in their island they gleaned every small specimen or portion of his works, and communicated it with pleasure to each other. It is said that...
Page 204 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's...
Page 221 - though such numbers were put to the sword, there were as many who laid violent hands upon themselves in grief for their sinking country. What reduced the best men among them to this despair of finding any mercy or moderate terms for Athens, was the well-known cruelty of Sylla ; yet partly by the intercession of Midias and...