Plutarch
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Notes - 5
1 Periods of four years elapsing between the celebrations of the Pythian games, like the Olympiads for the Olympic games.
Notes - 6
1 Something also of a personal remembrance of Vespasian’s unrelentingly severe temper may be thought to appear in the story, related in the Dialogue on Love, of the Gaulish rebel Sabinus, and his wife Eponina, mentioned by Tacitus in his Histories, who, after living in an underground concealment several years, were discovered and put to death. Two sons were born to them in their hiding-place, “one of whom,” says Plutarch, “was here with us in Delphi only a little while ago,” and he is disposed, he adds, “to attribute the subsequent extinction of the race of Vespasian to divine displeasure at this cruel and unfeeling act.”
Notes - 7
1 He means the Eclectic as it is more usually called.
2 He means, I believe, Those who; apparently the word and should be omitted in line 24, before sinking into flesh.
Notes - 8
1 Undoubtedly much later.
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Plutarch.
[Lives. English]
Plutarch's lives of the noble Grecians and Romans/John Dryden, translation; edited by A. H. Clough.
p. cm.
Previously published by Modern Library, 1979.
1. Greece—Biography. 2. Rome—Biography. I. Dryden, John, 1631-1700. II. Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861. III. Title. IV. Title: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans.
DE7. P5 1992
920.038—dc20 92-50223
eISBN: 978-0-679-64175-9
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