Most of these data have been recorded by Plutarch, Florus, Cicero, Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus ), Florus ( Book I, I ), Cicero ( The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream ), Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

Appian, Dio Cassius, and Plutarch each report that city was once again destroyed in the Roman Civil Wars, circa 42 BC, by Brutus, but Appian notes that it was rebuilt under Mark Antony.

In the second century AD the Emperor Hadrian, according to Dion Cassius, was the first of all the Caesars to grow a beard ; Plutarch says that he did it to hide scars on his face.

Xylander was the author of a number of important works, including Latin translations of Dio Cassius ( 1558 ), Plutarch ( 1560 – 1570 ) and Strabo ( 1571 ).

The presence of " nines " in Antony's fleet at Actium is recorded by Florus and Cassius Dio, although Plutarch makes explicit mention only of " eights " and " tens ".

* for online translations of Plutarch, Polybius, Cassius Dio and other antique authors

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* Dio Cassius, Appian, Plutarch, Livy

* Plutarch, Dio Cassius

Plutarch, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records that the victor over Macedon, when he beheld the statue, “ was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person ,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.

Snippets of biographical information are provided by ancient authors as diverse as Tatian, Proclus, Clement of Alexandria, Cicero, Aelian, Plutarch, Galen, Dio Chrysostom, Aelius Aristides and several anonymous authors in the Palatine Anthology.

The Naxian's fate interested later authors such as Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom, since it had been a fair fight yet he was punished for it by the gods: he had gone to the temple of Apollo at Delphi to consult the oracle and was rebuked with the memorable words: " You killed the servant of the Muses ; depart from the temple.

Other historians who lived through the period ( including Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch and Epictetus ) make no mention of it.

According to Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch, Tenedos was famous for its pottery ca 100 A. D.

This usage was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Plutarch as well as Roman Judean writers Philo of Alexandria and Josephus.

The temple served as a depository for Aristotle, Caesar, Dio Chrysostomus, Plautus, Plutarch, Strabo and Xenophon.

The later biographies of Caesar by Suetonius and Plutarch are also major sources.

Upon crossing the Rubicon, Caesar, according to Plutarch and Suetonius, is supposed to have quoted the Athenian playwright Menander, in Greek, " the die is cast ".

Both Plutarch and Suetonius say that Caesar waved him away, but Cimber grabbed his shoulders and pulled down Caesar's tunic.

His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart.

The most important sources for French tragic theatre in the Renaissance were the example of Seneca and the precepts of Horace and Aristotle ( and contemporary commentaries by Julius Caesar Scaliger and Lodovico Castelvetro ), although plots were taken from classical authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, etc., from the Bible, from contemporary events and from short story collections ( Italian, French and Spanish ).

Suetonius, writing about the same time as Plutarch, also says Cleopatra died from an asp bite.

Graves's interpretation of the story owes much to the histories of Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Plutarch, and ( especially ) Suetonius ( Lives of the Twelve Caesars ).

Roman historians like Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch, and Josephus often spoke of " tyranny " in opposition to " liberty ".

They included Memoirs of the civil wars after the death of Caesar, used by Suetonius and Plutarch ; bucolic poems in Greek ; translations of Greek speeches ; occasional satirical and erotic verses ; essays on the minutiae of grammar.

" Other works of Guevara are the Decada de los Césares ( Valladolid, 1539 ), or " Lives of the Ten Roman Emperors ," in imitation of the manner of Plutarch and Suetonius ; and the Epistolas familiares ( Valladolid, 1539 – 1545 ), sometimes called " The Golden Letters ," often printed in Spain, and translated into all the principal languages of Europe.

16 ; Plutarch, Otho, 7 ; Suetonius, Titus, 6 ; Zonaras xi.

According to Plutarch and Suetonius, Antyllus was the only child of Mark Antony to be executed by Octavian.

Both Plutarch and Suetonius say that Caesar waved him away, but Cimber grabbed his shoulders and pulled down Caesar's tunic.

In 1508 Ringmann made the first translation of Julius Caesar's Commentaries into German with supplemental lives by Suetonius, Plutarch, and others.

The most important source for tragic theater was Seneca and the precepts of Horace and Aristotle ( plus modern commentaries by Julius Caesar Scaliger and Lodovico Castelvetro ); plots were taken from classical authors such as Plutarch and Suetonius, and from Italian, French and Spanish short-story collections.

Plutarch writes that Epimenides purified Athens after the pollution brought by the Alcmeonidae, and that the seer's expertise in sacrifices and reform of funeral practices were of great help to Solon in his reform of the Athenian state.

Plutarch ( citing Valerius Antias ) and Livy records that at his request he was buried along with these " sacred books ", preferring that the rules and rituals they prescribed be preserved in the living memory of the state priests, rather than preserved as relics subject to forgetfulness and disuse.

Lucullus is reported by Plutarch to have lost his mind at the end and went intermittently mad as he aged ; Plutarch, however seems to be somewhat ambivalent as to whether the factor behind the apparent madness was what he seems to most lean towards which was the administration of some sort of love potion or if it was at least in part feigned as a political protection against changes in the Roman state, such as the rise of the popular party.

Plutarch, in his " Life of Lycurgus ," attributes to Lycurgus also a thoroughgoing reassignment and equalizing of landholdings and wealth among the population, " For there was an extreme inequality amongst them, and their state was overloaded with a multitude of indigent and necessitous persons, while its whole wealth had centred upon a very few.

Plutarch gives no further biographical details for Hagnothemis, but he does state that, according to his account, Antipater undertook the assassination at Aristotle's instigation, and that it was Aristotle who procured the poison.

Plutarch, writing about 130 years after the event, reports that Octavian succeeded in capturing Cleopatra in her mausoleum after the death of Antony.

Plutarch states that the only child that Octavian killed out of Antony ’ s children was Marcus Antonius Antyllus.

One, as early as Thucydides, reported in Plutarch, the Suda and John Tzetzes, states that the Delphic oracle warned Hesiod that he would die in Nemea, and so he fled to Locris, where he was killed at the local temple to Nemean Zeus, and buried there.

Plutarch said the inhabitants of Caria carried the emblem of the rooster on the end of their lances and relates that origin to Artaxerxes, who awarded a Carian who was said to have killed Cyrus the Younger at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B. C " the privilege of carrying ever after a golden cock upon his spear before the first ranks of the army in all expeditions " and the Carians also wore crested helmets at the time of Herodotus, for which reason " the Persians gave the Carians the name of cocks ".

Plutarch ( Sulla 24. 4 ) says that 150, 000 are killed, other sources calculate a figure of 80, 000 people.

Alcibiades was not one of the Generals involved in the capture of Melos in 416 – 415 BC, but Plutarch describes him as a supporter of the decree by which the grown men of Melos were killed and the women and children enslaved.

* Mithridates ( soldier ) ( d. 401 BC ), Persian soldier who killed Cyrus the Younger in 401 BC, according to Plutarch.

Plutarch, however claims that the children were already dead at the time, having been killed by their parents, whose consent — as well as that of the children — was required ; Tertullian explains the acquiescence of the children as a product of their youthful trustfulness.

Plutarch says that Lycomedes also killed Theseus who had fled to his island in exile by pushing him off a cliff for he feared that Theseus would dethrone him.

Others, Plutarch remarked, related the same of Sinis, another bandit killed by Theseus.

Quintus Curtius Rufus, the historian, says he was crucified in the place where Darius III had been killed, Arrian states that he was tortured and then decapitated in Ecbatana, and Plutarch suggests that he was torn apart in Bactria after a Macedonian trial.

According to Plutarch, Albanians " were led by a brother of the king, named Cosis, who as soon as the fighting was at close quarters, rushed upon Pompey himself and smote him with a javelin on the fold of his breastplate ; but Pompey ran him through the body and killed him ".

According to Plutarch, Nicias explained that he preferred to be killed by the enemy, rather than being killed by the Athenians, who would condemn him if they were defeated.

Plutarch mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing Atreus deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the heat of action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants crossing the stage.

According to Plutarch, at one point during the height of the civil strife, as respected Roman nobles were being led to execution from Sulla's villa, Cato, aged about 14, asked his tutor why no one had yet killed the dictator.

According to the political journalist and classicist Garry Wills, although Shakespeare has Porcia die by the method Plutarch repeats, but rejects, " the historical Porcia died of illness ( possibly of plague ) a year before the battle of Philippi "...“ but Valerius Maximus wrote that she killed herself at news of Brutus ’ s death in that battle.

Plutarch suggests that all 300 of the Sacred Band were killed at the battle, having previously been seen as invincible.

The last three writers mentioned above add that he was a tribune of the people, while Plutarch, referring to the affair, gives the further information that the Cinna who was killed by the mob was a poet.

Plutarch says that on the Roman side, " only a hundred were wounded, and only five killed ," although such low figures are highly unrealistic.