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Lives, translated from the original Greek
Lives translated from the original Greek Author:Plutarch Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " By heaven I was so! ask those who ventured to engage me if I was not. I do not know that I met with a better man than myself." "Well," said Onomarchus, "now yo... more »u have found a better man than yourself, why do not you patiently wait his time?" . . When Antigonus had resolved upon his death, he gave orders that he should have no kind of food. By this means, in two or threw days' time, he began to draw near his end ; and then Antigonus being obliged to decamp' upon some sudden emergency, sent in an executioner to despatch him. The body he delivered to his friends, allowing them to burn it honourably, and to collect the- ashes into a silver urn, in order to their being sent to his wife and children. Thus died Eumenes; and divine justice did not go far to seek instruments of vengeance against the officers and soldiers who had betrayed him. Antigonus himself, detesting the Argyraspides as impious and savage wretches, ordered Ibyrtius, governor of Arachosia,f under whose direction he put them, to take every method to destroy them ; so that not one of them, might return to Macedonia, or set his eyes upon the Grecian sea. . - SERTORIUS AND EUMENES COMPARED. These are the most remarkable particulars which histoTy- has given us concerning Eumenes and Sertorius. And now to tome to the comparison. We observe, first, that though they were both strangers, aliens, and exiles, they had, to the end of their days, the command of many warlike nations, and great and respectable armies. Sertorius, indeed, has this advantage, that his fellow-warriors ever freely gave up the command to him on account of his superior merit; whereas many disputed the post of honour with Eumenes, and it was his actions only that obtained it for him. The officers of Sertorius were ambitious to have him at the...« less