Plutarch writes that many Romans found the triumph held following Caesar's victory to be in poor taste, as those defeated in the civil war had not been foreigners, but instead fellow Romans.

* Plutarch writes his Parallel Lives of Famous Men ( in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι ) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities — for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.

In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.

Additionally, painters, artists and historians of the 19th century portrayed Cleopatra as applying the asp to her breast even though the most reliable source, Plutarch, writes that she was bitten on the arm.

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.

In his Life of Marius, Plutarch writes that Marius's return to power was a particularly brutal and bloody one, saying that the consul's " anger increased day by day and thirsted for blood, kept on killing all whom he held in any suspicion whatsoever.

Information regarding the life of Demetrius are drawn mainly from inscription as only Plutarch writes of him, in Life of Aratus, and Polybius makes scarce mentions of him.

Plutarch writes that the Romans rampaged through the city, taking much of the plunder and artwork they could find.

Plutarch writes that according to some Janus was a Greek from Perrhebia.

Plutarch writes that Xenocrates once attempted to find the total number of syllables that could be made from the letters of the alphabet.

Plutarch writes of how Gaius removed a law that disgraced Marcus Octavius, the tribune whom Tiberius had deposed, because Cornelia asked him to remove it.

Plutarch also writes that Cornelia may have helped Gaius undermine the power of the consul Opimius by hiring foreign harvesters to help provide resistance.

Plutarch writes that Gaius stated:

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Plutarch writes in his biography of Artaxerxes II that Mithridates, sentenced to die in this manner in 401 BC for boasting about killing Cyrus the Younger, survived 17 days before dying.

Plutarch writes Roman Questions as a series of questions and answers.

First, individual freedom was restricted, since as Plutarch writes " no man was allowed to live as he wished ", but as in a " military camp " all were engaged in the public service of their polis.

By the time Plutarch writes about Egypt, even Lycurgus has visited the place.

However, this point is controversial since Plutarch writes that eight generations of kings of Pontus stemmed from him before Roman subjection.

Plutarch suggests that it was " the grief he had suffered encouraged him to speak out fearlessly, whenever he lamented the fate of his brother.

Suda's extraordinary account of the poet's death is found in other sources, such as Plutarch and Antipater of Sidon and later it inspired Friedrich Schiller to write a ballad called " The Cranes of Ibycus " yet the legend might be derived merely from a play upon the poet's name and the Greek word for the bird or ibyx — it might even have been told of somebody else originally.

* Plutarch, “ Gaius Marius ,” in The Fall of the Roman Republic.

Although Plutarch claims that Marius ' father was a laborer, this is almost certainly false since Marius had connections with the nobility in Rome, he ran for local office in Arpinum, and he had marriage relations with the local nobility in Arpinum, which all combine to indicate that he was born into a locally important family of equestrian status.

In 114 BC, Marius ' imperium was prorogued and he was sent to govern Lusitania, where he engaged in some sort of minor military operation: according to Plutarch, he cleared away the robbers whilst robbery was still considered a noble occupation by the local people.

Marius relaxed the recruitment policies by removing the necessity to own land, and allowed all Roman citizens entry, regardless of social class ( Plutarch, The Life of Marius ).

Plutarch relates several opinions on the end of C. Marius: one, from Posidonius, holds that Marius contracted pleurisy ; Gaius Piso has it that Marius walked with his friends and discussed all of his accomplishments with them, adding that no intelligent man ought leave himself to Fortune.

Plutarch then anonymously relates that Marius, having gone into a fit of passion in which he announced a delusion that he was in command of the Mithridatic War, began to act as he would have on the field of battle ; finally, ever an ambitious man, Marius lamented, on his death bed, that he had not achieved all of which he was capable, despite his having acquired great wealth and having been chosen consul more times than any man before him.

* Plutarch, Life of Marius and Life of Sulla

xxxvi 12 ; Plutarch, Marius, 28-30 ; Livy, Epit.

Armed gladiators were unable to resist organized Roman soldiers ; and although Marius offered freedom to any slave that would fight with him against Sulla ( an offer which Plutarch says only three slaves accepted ) he and his followers were forced to flee the city.

* Plutarch, Sulla and Marius.

* Gaius Marius was said to have died of the disease in 86 BCE by Plutarch, 200 years after his death .</ p >

The beginning of this rivalry, according to Plutarch, was purportedly Sulla's crucial role in the negotiations for and eventual capture of Jugurtha, which led to Sulla wearing a ring portraying the capture despite Marius being awarded the victory for it.

* Plutarch, Marius, 44

Plutarch, in his " Life of Marius ," did mention that the soil of the fields the battle had been fought upon were made so fertile by human remains that they were able to produce " magna copia " ( a great quantity ) of yield for many years.

* Plutarch, Marius, 40, Pompey, 12

Plutarch, who discusses him in his lives of Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, describes Gnaeus Octavius ' character as " reputable ".

According to both Plutarch and Cicero, a Licinia, daughter of this man, was married to Gaius Marius the Younger.

Concerning the liberal use of the death penalty in the Draconic code, Plutarch states: " It is said that Drakon himself, when asked why he had fixed the punishment of death for most offences, answered that he considered these lesser crimes to deserve it, and he had no greater punishment for more important ones.

Whatever conflicts existed between the two men, Antony remained faithful to Caesar but it is worth mentioning that according to Plutarch ( paragraph 13 ) Trebonius, one of the conspirators, had ' sounded him unobtrusively and cautiously ... Antony had understood his drift ... but had given him no encouragement: at the same time he had not reported the conversation to Caesar '.

Themistocles was born in Athens around 524 BC, the son of Neocles, who was, in the words of Plutarch " no very conspicuous man ".

The myth can be traced back to Plutarch, who includes no less than 17 " sayings " of " Spartan women ," all of which paraphrase or elaborate on the theme that Spartan mothers rejected their own offspring if they showed any kind of cowardice.

Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarch are the main source of information, yet they wrote about Solon long after his death, at a time when history was by no means an academic discipline.

Plutarch noted, " Then the poor, who had been ejected from their land, no longer showed themselves eager for military service, and neglected the bringing up of children, so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen, and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves, by whose aid the rich cultivated their estates, from which they had driven away the free citizens.

When the god no longer had need of her, he advised her to marry the first wealthy man she met, who turned out to be an Etruscan named Carutius ( or Tarrutius, according to Plutarch ).

Plutarch, Camillus: " Camillus ... assumed more to himself than became a civil and legal magistrate ; among other things, in the pride and haughtiness of his triumph, driving through Rome in a chariot drawn with four white horses, which no general either before or since ever did ; for the Romans consider such a mode of conveyance to be sacred, and especially set apart to the king and father of the gods.

There is no scholarly agreement that the oath took place ; it is reported, although differently, by Plutarch ( Poplicola, 2 ) and Appian ( B. C.

Some philosophers believed the Universe was eternal, and actually had no date of creation, while Plutarch recorded a tradition among the Roman sages in Tuscany that the world was re-created every 25, 868 years.

He had been married first to Papiria Masonis ( or Papiria Masonia ), daughter of the consul Gaius Papirius Maso ( consul in 231 BC ), whom he divorced, according to Plutarch, for no particular reason.

He is known for having been the lover of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the famed general and Dictator, and is mentioned twice by Plutarch, who clearly disapproves of him " and he never lost his love for an actor called Metrobius " and later " And Metrobius, ( who specialized in camp transvestite roles ) Although Metrobius was past the age of youthful bloom, Sulla remained to the end of his life in love with him, and made no secret of that fact.

But Plutarch, though writing during the Roman Empire, had at his disposal a range of historical sources that no longer survive, and he was a conscientious scholar who weighed his evidence carefully.

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

He points out that Plutarch, a native of Chaeronea, makes no mention of the monument ; while Pausanias simply refers to it as the graves of Thebans in the Battle of Chaeronea and do not mention the Sacred Band by name.

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.

There was no open conflict between the Greeks and Persia until 396 BC, when the Spartan king Agesilaus briefly invaded Asia Minor ; as Plutarch points out, the Greeks were far too busy overseeing the destruction of their own power to fight against the " barbarians ".

Among the twenty-nine guests, Galen, Ulpian and Plutarch are named, but all are probably to be taken as fictitious personages, and the majority take little or no part in the conversation.

Plutarch said that the shrine of Athena, which he identifies with Isis, in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be ; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

We are told by Plutarch, that Solon " is much commended for his law concerning wills ; for before his time no man was allowed to make any, but all the wealth of deceased persons belonged to their families ; but he permitted them to bestow it on whom they pleased, esteeming friendship a stronger tie than kindred, and affection than necessity, and thus put every man's estate in the disposal of the possessor ; yet he allowed not all sorts of wills, but required the following conditions in all persons that made them:

# That they should not be induced to it by the charms and insinuations of a wife ; for ( says Plutarch ) the wise lawgiver with good reason thought that no difference was to be put between deceit and necessity, flattery and compulsion, since both are equally powerful to persuade a man from reason.

There is no clear evidence that he did, although Plutarch credits Cicero's clerks as the first Romans to record speeches in shorthand.