================================================ Transcriber's note: Chapter numbers in the Index with question marks do not exist in the previous volumes. ================================================ 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. IV. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN, AND NEW YORK. 1892. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS PAGE LIFE OF AGIS 1 LIFE OF KLEOMENES 19 LIFE OF TIBERIUS GRACCHUS (_by G. Long _) 53 LIFE OF CAIUS GRACCHUS (_by G. Long _) 90 COMPARISON OF TIBERIUS AND CAIUS GRACCHUS WITH AGIS AND KLEOMENES 115 LIFE OF DEMOSTHENES 119 LIFE OF CICERO (_by G. Long_) 146 COMPARISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO 211 LIFE OF DEMETRIUS 215 LIFE OF ANTONIUS (_by G. Long_) 263 COMPARISON OF DEMETRIUS AND ANTONIUS 348 LIFE OF DION 352 LIFE OF BRUTUS (_by G. Long_) 398 COMPARISON OF DION AND BRUTUS 454 LIFE OF ARTAXERXES 458 LIFE OF ARATUS 485 LIFE OF GALBA 530 LIFE OF OTHO 556 INDEX 573 PLUTARCH'S LIVES. LIFE OF AGIS. I. Many writers have very naturally conceived that the myth of Ixion, who is fabled to have embraced a cloud instead of Hera, and so to have begotten the centaurs, is really typical of ambitious men; for, although they aim at obtaining glory, and set before themselves a lofty ideal of virtue, yet they never succeed in producing any very distinct result, because all their actions are coloured by various human passions and prejudices, just as the herdsmen with their flocks say in Sophokles's play:-- "We needs must serve them, though their lords we be, And to their mute commands obedience pay."