Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~200,000 words · 956 passages
Cite this work
- APAPlutarch. (n.d.). Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-2-of-4
- MLAPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-2-of-4.
- ChicagoPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-2-of-4.
Reference to the edition that SigPhi reproduces: SigPhi is its digital reproduction, not its publisher. The edition's year is not in the metadata (hence "n.d."), and the translator appears only when recorded.
What it is about
The segon volume of a four-volume edition of the Parallel Lives.
Context and history
The catalogue holds TWO presentations of the Lives, this one in four volumes and another in a single one: it is the same text, not different or complementary works. The division is the publisher's. Plutarch wrote independent pairs — a Greek and a Roman, with a comparison at the end — which is why the reference that works everywhere is the subject's name and the chapter.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
roused, and there was great confusion, lights flitting about, and people running to one another's houses, but the people had not yet assembled, but being alarmed at what had happened, and knowing nothing for certain, they waited for daylight. And here the generals of the Lacedæmonian garrison seem to have missed an opportunity in not at once sallying out and attacking them, for the garrison itself consisted of 1500 men, and many people kept running to them for refuge from the city; however, alarmed at the shouts and fires and mass of people assembling from all parts, they remained quiet, holding the Kadmeia only. At daybreak arrived the exiles from Attica, fully armed, and the public assembly met. Epameinondas and Gorgidas led forward the band of Pelopidas, surrounded by the priests, who crowned them with wreaths, and called upon the citizens to fight for their country and their gods. The whole assembly, with shouts and applause, rose at the sight, and received them as their benefactors and saviours. XIII. After this, Pelopidas, who was chosen Bœotarch,[8] with Mellon and Charon as colleagues, at once blockaded the citadel, and made assaults upon it on all sides, being eager to drive out the Lacedæmonians and recover the Kadmeia before an army should come upon them from Sparta. And so little time had he to spare, that the garrison, when going home after their capitulation, met at Megara Kleombrotus, marching with a great force against Thebes. Of the three men who had been governors of Thebes, the Spartans condemned two, Herippidas and Arkissus, to death, and the third, Lysanorides, was heavily fined and banished. This adventure was called by the Greeks the "sister" of that of Thrasybulus, as it resembled it in the bravery and personal risk of its chief actors, and was, like the other, favoured by fortune.…