FABIUS 270-203 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden HAVING related the memorable actions of Pericles, our history now proceeds to the life of Fabius...

FLAMININUS 230?-174 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden   WHAT Titus Quintius [Flamininus], whom we select as a parallel to Philopoemen, was in personal appearance, those who are curious may see by the brazen statue of him, which stands in Rome near that of the great Apollo, brought from Carthage, opposite to the Circus Maximus, with a Greek inscription upon it...

GALBA 5 B.C.? - 69 A...

LUCULLUS 110?-56 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THE grandfather of Lucullus had been consul; his uncle by the mother’s side was Metellus, surnamed Numidicus...

LYCURGUS Legendary, 9th Century B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden There is so much uncertainty in the accounts which historians have left us of Lycurgus, the lawgiver of Sparta, that scarcely anything is asserted by one of them which is not called into question or contradicted by the rest...

LYSANDER 445?-395 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THE treasure-chamber of the Acanthians at Delphi has this inscription: "The spoils which Brasidas and the Acanthians took from the Athenians...

MARCELLUS 268?-208 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THEY say that Marcus Claudius, who was five times consul of the Romans, was the son of Marcus; and that he was the first of his family called Marcellus; that is, martial, as Posidonius affirms...

MARCUS BRUTUS 85?-42 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden MARCUS Brutus was descended from that Junius Brutus to whom the ancient Romans erected a statue of brass in the capitol among the images of their kings with a drawn sword in his hand, in remembrance of his courage and resolution in expelling the Tarquins and destroying the monarchy...

MARCUS CATO 234-149 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden MARCUS cato, we are told, was born at Tusculum, though (till he betook himself to civil and military affairs) he lived and was bred up in the country of the Sabines, where his father’s estate lay...

NICIAS ?-413 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden CRASSUS, in my opinion, may most properly be set against Nicias, and the Parthian disaster compared with that in Sicily...