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F THESEUS 1 LIFE OF ROMULUS 30 COMPARISON OF THESEUS AND ROMULUS 62 LIFE OF LYKURGUS 67 LIFE OF NUMA 99 COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYKURGUS 124 LIFE OF SOLON 130 LIFE OF POPLICOLA 161 COMPARISON OF SOLON AND POPLICOLA 181 LIFE OF THEMISTOKLES 185 LIFE OF CAMILLUS 214 LIFE OF PERIKLES 252 LIFE OF FABIUS MAXIMUS 288 COMPARISON OF PERIKLES AND FABIUS MAXIMIUS 315 LIFE OF ALKIBIADES 318 LIFE OF CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS 357 COMPARISON BETWEEN ALKIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS 390 LIFE OF TIMOLEON 395 LIFE OF AEMILIUS 428 COMPARISON OF PAULUS AEMILIUS AND TIMOLEON 461 LIFE OF PLUTARCH. Plutarch was born probably between A.D. 45 and A.D. 50, at the little town of Chaeronea in Boeotia. His family appears to have been long established in this place, the scene of the final destruction of the liberties of Greece, when Philip defeated the Athenians and Boeotian forces there in 338 B.C. It was here also that Sulla defeated Mithridates, and in the great civil wars of Rome we again hear, this time from Plutarch himself, of the sufferings of the citizens of Chaeronea. Nikarchus, Plutarch's great-grandfather, was, with all the other citizens, without any exception, ordered by a lieutenant of Marcus Antonius to transport a quantity of corn from Chaeronea to the coast opposite the island of Antikyra. They were compelled to carry the corn on their shoulders, like slaves, and were threatened with the lash if they were remiss. After they had performed one journey, and were preparing their burdens for a second, the welcome news arrived that Marcus Antonius had lost the battle of Actium, whereupon both the officers and soldiers of his party stationed in Chaeronea at once fled for their own safety, and the provisions thus collected were divided among the inhabitants of the city. When Plutarch was born, however, no such warlike scenes as these were to be expected. Nothing more than the traditions of war remained on
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