The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch

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Plutarch. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch

The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch

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THESEUS

ROMULUS

COMPARISON OF THESEUS AND ROMULUS

LYCURGUS

SOLON

THEMISTOCLES

CAMILLUS

PERICLES

DEMOSTHENES

CICERO

COMPARISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO

ALCIBAIDES

CORIOLANUS

COMPARISON OF ALCIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS

ARISTIDES

CIMON

POMPEY

THE ENGINES OF ARCHIMEDES FROM THE LIFE OF MARCELLUS

DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA FROM THE LIFE OF ANTONY

ANECDOTES FROM THE LIFE OF AGESILAUS, KING OF SPARTA

THE BROTHERS FROM THE LIFE OF TIMOLEON

THE WOUND OF PHILOPOEMEN

A ROMAN TRIUMPH FROM THE LIFE OF PAULUS AEMILIUS

THE NOBLE CHARACTER OF CAIUS FABRICIUS FROM THE LIFE OF PYRRHUS

FROM THE LIFE OF QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS

THE CRUELTY OF LUCIUS CORNELIUS SYLLA

THE LUXURY OF LUCULLUS

FROM THE LIFE OF SERTORIUS

THE SCROLL-FROM THE LIFE OF LYSANDER

THE CHARACTER OF MARCUS CATO

THE SACRED THEBAN BAND FROM THE LIFE OF PELOPIDAS

FROM THE LIFE OF TITUS FLAMININUS, THE CONQUEROR OF PHILIP

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

THE DEATH OF CAESAR

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Plutarch

Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls

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And a strong flagon of wine, for all to go mellow to bed on.

The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question as to things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.

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