PLUTARCH'S LIVES. Translated from the Greek WITH _NOTES AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH_. BY AUBREY STEWART, M.A., _Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge_, AND THE LATE GEORGE LONG, M.A., _Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge_, IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN, AND NEW YORK. 1892. LONDON: REPRINTED FROM THE STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WM. CLOWES & SONS, LTD., STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS. LIFE OF NIKIAS 1 LIFE OF CRASSUS (_By G. Long_.) 36 COMPARISON OF NIKIAS AND CRASSUS 89 LIFE OF SERTORIUS (_By G. Long_.) 94 LIFE OF EUMENES 130 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS AND EUMENES 150 LIFE OF AGESILAUS 152 LIFE OF POMPEIUS (_By G. Long_.) 195 COMPARISON OF AGESILAUS AND POMPEIUS 295 LIFE OF ALEXANDER 300 LIFE OF C. CÆSAR (_By G. Long_.) 379 LIFE OF PHOKION 466 LIFE OF CATO (_By G. Long_.) 500 PLUTARCH'S LIVES. LIFE OF NIKIAS. As it appears to me that the life of Nikias forms a good parallel to that of Crassus, and that the misfortunes of the former in Sicily may be well compared with those of the latter in Parthia, I must beg of my readers to believe that in writing upon a subject which has been described by Thucydides with inimitable grace, clearness, and pathos, I have no ambition to imitate Timæus, who, when writing his history, hoped to surpass Thucydides himself in eloquence, and to show that Philistius was but an ignorant bungler, and so plunges into an account of the speeches and battles of his heroes, proving himself not merely one "Who toils on foot afar Behind the Lydian car," as Pindar has it, but altogether unfit for the office of historian, and, in the words of Diphilus, "Dull-witted, with Sicilian fat for brains."