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APPENDIX. The Lives in the fourth volume were translated as follows: — Agesilaus, by W. Needham, M. D. Pompey, by W. Oldys, LL. D. Alexander, by Mr. Evelyn, (one of the minor compositions of the authoi of Sylva, and not unworthy of him). Cesar, by the Rev. Dr. James Smalridge. Piiocion, by Ph. Fowke, M. D. Cato the Younger, by Stephen Waller, LL. D. Acts, by Sir Robert Thorold, Bart. Ci.eomenes, by the Rev. Mr. Creech, Fellow of All-Soul's College, Oxford. The translator of Lucretius, whose name has appeared before in Vols. I. and II. as of Wadham College. He became Fellow of All-Souls afterwards. Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, by John Warren, Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge. The following notes may be added : — Life of Agesilaus, page 17. — The two verses are those of the old trans- lation, and express Plutarch's meaning. But in the original passage, O Greeks, that have found out barbarian ills, or, crimes such as only barbarians could be guilty of, is what Andromache says, when the herald, Talthybius, has announced to her, that her child, Astyanax, is to be put to death. — (Eurip., Troades, 759.) Page 18. — The passage in the Iliad from which the words his object un- achieved are borrowed is the lament of Agamemnon over Menelaus's wound, when he had been shot by Pandarus, — if he dies, the Achwans will at once cry out to go home ; Helen the Argive will be left for Priam and the Trojans to boast of, while his bones shall rot in the soil, as he lies in Trojan earth, his object una- ch'uved. "Lying in Trojan earth, having failed in what he attempted," or, " without having done what he wanted," is the last line. Page 19. — The Trallians are evidently not the people commonly called by this name, the inhabitants of the town of Tralles, in Asia Minor, still flourishing in Plutarch's time, but a tribe of wild Thracians. The name may perhaps be corrupt ; but certain Trallians of Thrace are spoken of as having taken part in the foundation of the town in Asia which took their name. (66D)