Plutarch's Lives, 3; Translated from the Original Greek (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 Excerpt: ...So moderate were the resentments of men, and so easily laid down where the public good required it Ambition itself, the strongest of all passions, yielded to the interests and the necessities of their country Cimon, soon after his return, put an end to the war, and reconciled the two cities. After the peace was made, he saw the Athenians could not sit down quietly, but still wished to be in motion, and to aggrandise themselves by new expeditions. To prevent their exciting farther troubles in Greece, and giving a handle for intestine wars and heavy complaints of the.allies against Athens, on account of their formidable navies traversing the seas about the islands and round Peloponnesus, he fitted out a fleet of two hundred sail, to carry war again into Egypt and Cyprus41. This, he thought, would answer two intentions; it would accustom the Athenians to conflicts with the barbarians, and it would improve their substance in an honourable manner, by bringing the rich spoils of their natural enemies into Greece. 41 The history of the firstexpedition is as follows: WhileCimou wasemployedinhisenterprise against Cyprus, Inaruskingof Lybia, having induced the greatest partof Lower Egypt to revolt from Artaxerxes, called in the Athenians to assist him in completing his conquest. Upon this, the Athenians quitted Cyprus, and sailed into Egypt. There they made themselves masters of th- Nile, and attacking Memphis seized two of the outworks, and attempted the third called 'The White Wall.' But the expedition proved very unfortunate. Artaxerxes sent Megabyzus with a powerful army into that country. He defeated the rebels, aud the Lybians their associates; drove the Greeks from Memphis, shut them up in the island-of Prospitis eighteen months, and at last forced them...