The beauties of Plutarch; consisting of selections from his works

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ministration. The lalter has been mos blamod sortho tricli hichielut upo the Lacedaemonian amba adors, a Thucydides telis us, and by whichio renowed the war. et this strοke os poticy though itplungod Athens again in ar, rendered the ulliancqwith themantineans and Argives, whicli asaroughtabout by Alcibiades, much tronger an more respectabio But was no Coriolanus chargeable illia fulsit too, hen, a Dionysius insorin us hestino up tho Romans against ille Volsolans by Ioadin tho lalter illi an infamous calumny, hentho wentrio se the publie game. Tho cause, GO, malles this actio the mox criminalci or it was notb ambitioni a rival spirit in politic that ho was influenced, as Alcibiades asci uti dixit to gratis yliis anger, is passion hieh, V as Dion says, cis ever ungrate fulcio ita votaries. this Inoans

spectabis parthoth suffereland sympathised with him.

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i prosecute a cruet war, not in Orderet procure his re-turit his native count , butet conquer anda ruin

Uistor insorin iis, that Alcibiades osten Oolibri bos, whichi lavistio again illi qua discredituponiis victous plensures ,hilo Coriolanus res used

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ades a Superior tu ali the attempis os his enemies,

though thei calumnius provalle against tua in his

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that pellceri tho enirenties of the women, hichio had res used to the applicationis the ambassadorari by that means leaving the onmit between the two nations and the ground of the wamentire, and losinga very avourable opportunity so the Volscians Fors olfhe wouldio have Mawn offitio orces without the consent of thos that committed thum t his conduci, is holad sufficienti rogardod his duinto them. But is, without considering the Volscians in the

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and when the were banished Or On an Other CC Sion, miscarrie in th suffrages, O Were condem ed

up0n him and at the samo tim his ambition illedhim illi egro an indignation hen the paSSed him by. his, then, is tho laniable par of his character at tho sest is reat and glorious. Inp0intis temperance an disrugard of richus, hecis fitto e compared illi th0 mos illustrious eXamplesos integrit in Gr0000, and not illi Alcibiades, Who, in his respect was the mos profligat osmen, and ad the east fgar sor decene and

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ANTIOCHUS AND STRATONICE.

Antiochus a Violently enamoured os the oungStratonice, though sheia a soni his athor. His

Condition res extremel utiliappy. . e made thogroatest emoris to conque his passion, but the wor ostio avail. At last, considering that his destres eroos thoemost extravngant hind that there a no pros- puctis satisfaction for them, and that the succoursos reason entirpi salied he resolved in his d0spati torid himsolsi lii , andi iniit graduallyrio a period, by neglectin ali care os his person, an abstainingstoni 00d so this purpus he made siclines his

preterice. His physician, ErnSi Stratus, asil dicov ur il that his distompo was love tu it was dissiculit conjecture ho was the objeci. In orde to iud itout he spent wholeinys in his chamber Pand when everin beautis ut person siither sex entei sed it hoobserved illi reat attention notini his colis, butevery parvanti motionis the Od whicli corresponds the most with tho passion os the uoul. ben Otherso teredi was sentiret unaffected but when Strato nie carne in us he osten id, itherinione or illi Seleucus h showed ali the symptorias described by Sappho, the saltering voice, the burning lush, tholanguidiye, the sudden weat, the tumultuous pulserian a tengili, the passi in Vercomin his Spirites, a deliquimn and morta palen OSS. Erasistratus concluded froin these totiens that thoprince was in ovo with Stratonico, and perceived thath in tondesto carry the secret,ith himet the grave.

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barid, an a Ling, illae the best physician to sor

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time hen it a notionducto by the Curii, hos abricii, and Hostilii nor re eived sor it magistrateΗ

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stocles, who was either distinguishodi birili nor fortuno sorte is sat notrio have been orth morothan three, Or, at the most, sive talentes, whente irst applied himselsu public assaim), acto haVerio con-10st,ith a Solpio Africanus, a Servius Galba, O a Quintius Flaminius, ithout annother assistunc orSupport but a longue a customeda speat with Deu-dom in the cause of justice. Besides, Aristides asini one moniten, that commanded a Marathon and Plataeari herest Cato

os competitors, and Ono of the w ce Ore thoughoppοSed by seVen candidates, Ma were Some of the greatest an mos illustrious men in Rome. It should bo observed too that Aristide was neverprincipat in an acticuri sor Miltiade had the chios

horiour os the victory at arathon Themistsclesos that at Salamis and tho palmis the important da a Plataea, as Herodotus telis us was adjudged

puted illi Aristidos by Sophanes, Aminias, Callimachus, and Cynaegirus, ho greatly distinguished