75 AD THE COMPARISON OF CRASSUS WITH NICIAS by Plutarch translated by John Dryden IN the comparison of these two, first, if we compare the estate of Nicias with that of Crassus, we must acknowledge Nicias’s to have been more honestly got. In itself, indeed, one cannot much approve of gaining riches by working mines, the greatest part of which is done by malefactors and barbarians, some of them, too, bound, and perishing in those close and unwholesome places...

THE COMPARISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THESE are the most memorable circumstances recorded in history of Demosthenes and Cicero which have come to our knowledge...

THE COMPARISON OF DION AND BRUTUS by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THERE are noble points in abundance in the characters of these two men, and one to be first mentioned is their attaining such a height of greatness upon such inconsiderable means; and on this score Dion has by far the advantage...

THE COMPARISON OF FABIUS WITH PERICLES by Plutarch translated by John Dryden WE have here had two lives rich in examples, both of civil and military excellence. Let us first compare the two men in their warlike capacity. Pericles presided in his commonwealth when it was in its most flourishing and opulent condition, great and growing in power; so that it may be thought it was rather the common success and fortune that kept him from any fall or disaster...

THE COMPARISON OF LYSANDER WITH SYLLA by Plutarch translated by John Dryden HAVING completed this Life also, come we now to the comparison. That which was common to them both was that they were founders of their own greatness, with this difference, that Lysander had the consent of his fellow-citizens, in times of sober judgment, for the honours he received; nor did he force anything from them against their good-will, nor hold any power contrary to the laws...

THE COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS by Plutarch translated by John Dryden HAVING thus finished the lives of Lycurgus and Numa, we shall now, though the work be difficult, put together their points of difference as they lie here before our view. Their points of likeness are obvious; their moderation, their religion, their capacity of government and discipline, their both deriving their laws and constitutions from the gods...

THE COMPARISON OF PELOPIDAS WITH MARCELLUS by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THESE are the memorable things I have found in historians concerning Marcellus and Pelopidas...

THE COMPARISON OF PHILOPOEMEN WITH FLAMININUS by Plutarch translated by John Dryden FIRST them, as for the greatness of the benefits which Titus conferred on Greece, neither Philopoemen, nor many braver men than he, can make good the parallel. They were Greeks fighting against Greeks, but Titus, a stranger to Greece, fought for her...

THE COMPARISON OF POMPEY WITH AGESILAUS by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THUS having drawn out the history of the lives of Agesilaus and Pompey, the next thing is to compare them; and in order to this, to take a cursory view, and bring together the points in which they chiefly disagree; which are these...

THE COMPARISON OF POPLICOLA WITH SOLON by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THERE is something singular in the present parallel which has not occurred in any other of the lives; that the one should be the imitator of the other, and the other his best evidence...