Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~200,000 words · 956 passages
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- APAPlutarch. (n.d.). Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-2-of-4
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- ChicagoPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-2-of-4.
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.
I. Cato the elder, speaking to some persons who were praising a man of reckless daring and audacity in war, observed that there is a difference between a man's setting a high value on courage, and setting a low value on his own life--and rightly. For a daring soldier in the army of Antigonus, but of broken and ill health, being asked by the king the reason of his paleness, confessed that he was suffering from some secret disorder. When then the king, anxious for him, charged his physicians to use the greatest care in their treatment, if a cure were possible, at length this brave fellow, being restored to health, was no longer fond of peril and furious in battle, so that Antigonus reproved him, a
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