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Plutarch's Lives : translated from the original Greek, with notes, critical and historical, and a new life of Plutarch / by John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, M.A. In six volumes.
LIBRA - Rare DE7 .P53 1792 Frost copy v. 1-6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plutarch.
- Standardized Title:
- Lives. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--Biography.
- Greece.
- Rome--Biography.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth ed, corrected.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for C. Dilly, 1792.
- Contents:
- v. I. Life of Plutarch. Theseus; Romulus; Romulus and Theseus compared; Lycurgus; Numa; Numa and Lycurgus compared; Solon; Publicola; Solon and Publicola compared; Themistocles; Camillus
- v. II. Percles; Fabius Maximus; Pericles and Fabius Maximus compared; Alcibiades; Caius Marcius Coriolanus; Alcibiades and Coriolanus compared; Timoleon; Paulus Æmilius; Timoleon and Paulus Æmilius compared; Pelopidas; Marcellus; Pelopidas and Marcellus compared; Aristides; Cato the Censor; Aristides and Cato the Censor compared
- v. III. Philopoemen; Titus Quinctius Flaminius; Flaminius and Philopœmen compared; Pyrrhus; Caius Marius; Lysander; Sylla; Lysander and Sylla compared; Cimon; Lucullus; Cimon and Lucullus compared; Nicias; Marcus Crassus; Nicias and Marcus Crassus compared
- v. IV. Sertorius; Eumenes; Sertorius and Eumenes compared; Agesilaus; Pompey; Agesilaus and Pompey compared; Alexander; Julius Cæsar
- v. V. Phocion; Cato the Younger; Agis; Cleomenes; Tiberius Gracchus; Caius Gracchus; Agis and Cleomenes compared with Tiberius and Caius Gracchus; Demosthenes; Cicero; Deomsthenes and Cicero compared; Demetrius; Antony; Demetrius and Antony compared
- v. VI. Dion; M. Brutus; Dion and Brutus compared; Artaxerxes; Aratus; Galba; Otho.
- Notes:
- Each volume has engraved frontispiece by S. Wale delint. and Isaac Taylor, sculp.
- Vol. 1 contains dedication to Lord Folkestone, Preface and Table of Contents.
- Vol. 4 contains Account of Weights, Measures and Denominations of Money mentioned by Plutarch, Chronological Table and Index.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T107378
- OCLC:
- 221459030
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