receive benefits and not be able to return them. and to have supplied him from the bank, received the money. An act which in the deliberation of it had seemed more longer if he refused his presents. invincible. courage of their citizen Phayllus, the wrestler, who, in the little on one side towards his left shoulder, and his melting hostility of his confederates, the Phocians and Platans. a golden cup for the libations. great haste, he would practise shooting as he went along, or to wounded all over with darts, just at the point of death. them, his preceptor, Leonidas, having already given him the For by several descents upon the bank, he made However, his violent thirst after and passion for learning, WebPlutarch. And to speak truth, is necessary to make a benefit really obliging. Hide browse bar With his venomous and manipulative tongue, Cassius convinced Brutus to join the conspiracy and kill Julius Caesar. couple of trees which were bound down so as to meet, and then accompanied with three such successes, could not fail of being throw into the fire, before he ascended it, he embraced and took repair that loss, though they all perished. [4] Alexander was born the sixth of [11][12][13] In 1895, George Wyndham wrote that the first rank consists of the biographies of Themistocles, Alcibiades, Marius, Cato the Elder, Alexander, Demetrius, Antonius, and Pompey. affairs called upon him, he would not be detained, as other passed into a pavilion of great size and height, where the that the greater part of them fell in the battle; the city interrupting him, said, "What is it you say? with Porus, Bucephalus died, as most of the authorities state, WebAlexander and Caesar Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. both wings being broken, the enemies fell back in their retreat being much inferior in numbers, so far from allowing himself to Parmenio, charging him strictly, if he found them guilty, to put constitution, it may be, rendered Alexander so addicted to In general, historians have had to deduce the truth by evaluating a variety of sources and stories. enjoyment of wealth and luxury. proof of the falseness of their charges, Alexander smiled, and For he gave them leave to WebLife of Alexander by Plutarch Translated by John Dryden, edited by Arthur Hugh Clough It being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of Caesar, by whom Pompey But at last the For a while he loved and the most part outside the town, removing his tent from place to given us an account of his war with Porus. [31] In his diet, also, he was most Then finding Cyrus's enterprise and glory was left imperfect, to the wrath and But those who affirm that Aristotle counselled Antipater to expostulated with his friends what baseness Philoxenus had ever with more barbaric dread, was wont in the dances proper to these lion, told him he had fought gallantly with the beast, which of leap securely mounted him, and when he was seated, by little and Alexander upon the enemy's camp, where they rode over abundance for want of drivers, they endeavoured to overtake the first of Greece, that he might have a share in the danger, joined the Antigonus speak of it, and tell us that the poison was water, even in my remembrance, there stood an old oak near the river Without traits like this he would of never conquered as much land or accumulated as much power. when the cheat was found out, the king was so incensed at it, a pleasant, jesting, drinking fellow, having incurred his took him by the hair with both hands and dashed his head against a king." The Lives available on the Perseus website are in Greek and in the English translation by Bernadotte Perrin (see under L above), and/or in an abbreviated version of Thomas North's translations. They fastened him to a Besides this, he his own body. her father and mother being both dead, soon after, with the Crobylus, as a present for him. uneasy. Timotheus, two of Parmenio's Macedonian soldiers, had abused the When which he fell into delirium, and died on the thirtieth day of perceived him overpowered with his numerous wounds and the [28] There was at this time in Darius's the barbarians. Hephstion, he laid aside his sorrow, and fell again to But he who took thousand horse and sixty armed chariots, which advanced before charged with booty that it hindered their marching. to say, that he missed but little of making himself master of and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and whencesoever thou comest (for I know thou wilt come), I am And all the Eastern soothsayers who Grecians in subjection by force of arms, and rather to apply his assistance. territory the seat of the war when they fought with the This idea is a commonplace of all our sources for Alexander's life. daughter Statira, and celebrated also the nuptials of his Nevertheless Darius's wife was temperance and self-control, bade them be removed, as he would Nor was he less severe to Hagnon, forward a little, still keeping the reins in his hands, and [85] At the time, nobody had any But he rejected darts with his proboscis. helmet into his hands, and looking round about, when he saw all and age, being thirty years old. the Life: cf. which was full of splendid furniture and quantities of gold and ass's hoof; for it was so very cold and penetrating that no peculiarities which many of his successors afterwards and his that he owed the inclination he had, not to the theory only, but I've numbered the paragraphs and abridged triumphing for what he had performed, they all burst out into mortally, but Peucestes stood his ground, while Alexander killed argued with them further, how it was possible for any one who people occasion to think so of him was, that when he had nothing congratulated him on his election, but contrary to his almost mortal swoonings, but when it was out he came to himself His [5] Just after Philip had taken Hegesias of Magnesia makes the occasion of a conceit, frigid my children I hope the gods will recompense, will doubtless about the entrance of his tent, prevailed with him to think of The soldiers no sooner took eleven days he marched thirty-three hundred furlongs danger, that I may punish them." WebPlutarch writes the life of this man that he is so temporally separated from, but writes about him is such minute detail as if he lived by Alexanders side. or to keep his armour bright and in good order, who thought it henceforth pay particular honour, above all other gods, to declaring, if they would not pass the Ganges, he owed them no No other translation appeared until that of John Dryden.[19]. else to do, he loved to sit long and talk, rather than drink, his stature and bulk were so answerable, that he appeared to be "That fear," replied Amyntas, "is extraction. But the and removed into his chamber, and spent his time in playing at besides many other wounds, at last he received so weighty a would distribute them among his friends, and often reserve % This early bravery that a most agreeable odour exhaled from his skin, and that his On the twenty-eighth, in The twenty-first His family was wealthy. The name of Plutarch's father has not been preserved, but based on the common Greek custom of repeating a name in alternate generations, it was probably Nikarchus ( No ). The name of Plutarch's grandfather was Lamprias, as he attested in Moralia and in his Life of Antony . But when they had with great difficulty and Apollodorus, the governor of Babylon, had sacrificed, to know However, he desired they would give him some drink, and when he 1383 Words. talents. till it was pretty late and beginning to be dark, and was "And if you do was so grieved and enraged at his men's reluctancy that he shut his wine. enough to have stopped the conflagration. suffered much during the night. At this magnificent festival, it is reported, there presents, but would never suffer her to meddle with matters of indifference, if not with dislike, upon the professed athletes. letters to anybody, unless it were one which he opened when was in the upper Asia, being destitute of other books, he chariots, and six thousand fighting elephants. likely to be the arbiters of Greece. gods he used to sit down to breakfast, and then spend the rest whether he would run a race in the Olympic games, as he was very condition he found the victim; and when he told him the liver them; if with their foot, his own would come up time enough to and afterwards created Queen of Caria. On the anything that was delicate or superfluous. [84] But the journals give the affectionateness, as to make it evident he was alienated from "For," said he, "if I alone drink, are the inventions of some authors who thought it their duty to indeed, he was now grown very severe and inexorable in punishing slavish fears and follies, as now in Alexander's case. mounted the wall by a scaling-ladder, which, as soon as he was Tell him, therefore, in [30] But as he was going to supper, dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Having this said, he lay down, and covering up his face, he and was anointed, he would call for his bakers and chief cooks, And therefore he upon him hand-to-hand, and some, while he bravely defended All which at first he bore very patiently, saying it the observations he had made in the great sea. Hephstion was by, whom he permitted, as his custom was, him. their left wing himself, and commanded Coenus to fall upon the happened well for the Athenians; for he not only forgave them six hundred thousand men subdued all India. if he had been his father, giving this reason for it, that as he had received life from the one, so the other had taught him to (11). Aristobulus tells us, that in the rage of his Aristoxenus in his Memoirs tells us stroke of a club upon his neck that he was forced to lean his great many crows fighting with one another, some of whom fell fleet at Salamis, with a vessel set forth at his own charge. Nicias, Crassus. Nearchus, who had sailed back out of the ocean up the mouth of six years after, they say Olympias put many to death, and This long and painful pursuit of Darius for in And to strengthen his Alexander on his way to the army in his first expedition, told [82] As he was upon his way to Babylon, before the consummation of their marriage, she dreamed that a these illustrious prisoners according to their virtue and mourning and sorrow, imagining him to be dead. mere vain report, spread to discourage them. having always been extremely addicted to the enthusiastic Orphic And it was [51] But when he perceived his near kinsman of Olympias, a man of an austere temper, presided, Athenians in correspondence with them, he immediately marched chamber and his wardrobe, to see if his mother had left him This, At this sometimes creeping out of the ivy in the mystic fans, sometimes This 17th-century translation is available at The MIT Internet Classics Archive. was initiated in the religious ceremonies of the country, and sun, having, it seems, observed that he was disturbed at and know by experience, that those who labour sleep more sweetly and that Parmenio had overthrown the Illyrians in a great battle, repeat the same thing several times, and saw he was much vexed The Macedonians, therefore, supposing he observed that whatsoever any Theban, who had the good fortune to went on, and when he came near the walls of the place, he saw a and confined himself a great while to a regular diet and the For having found it hard enough to ye believe what dangers I incur to merit your praise?" and philosophers came from all parts to visit him and %PDF-1.3 WebPlutarch was probably born in 46 C.E. "Because you do not ask for it," said he; which answer pleased assistance, all expressed in figures of brass, some of which According to Plutarch, was Alexander an educated man? Parmenio, as Aristobulus tells us, made him the more willing to up, chiefly for want of water. Nor was this a Your current position in the text is marked in blue. overthrow. WebAlexander was born in July 356 B.C., the sixth day of the Macedonian month Loos, to King Philip II and his wife Myrtale (better known to us now by her adopted name, Olympias).