TRANSLATED FROM

THE ORIGINAL GREEK;

WITH

NOTES CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL,

AND A

LIFE OF PLUTARCH.

BY JOHN LANGHORNE, D.D.

AND

WILLIAM LANGHORNE, A. M.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

THE SECOND EDITION,

BY

THE REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M.A. F.R.S.

WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

VOL. I.

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

VISCOUNT MILTON,

ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT OF THE COUNTY OF YORK, &c. &c.

MY DEAR LORD,

WHEN under the sanction of your Lordship's name I offer to the Public an edition of PLUTARCH'S Lives of Illustrious Men, I am sensible that I place before them a melancholy series of instances, in which Virtue was referred for her sole recompense to the recollection of her achievements, or to the consciousness of her purposes. To the eye of the multitude, this may appear to throw over her an unnatural and a discouraging gloom. But you, my Lord, inherit the talent of appreciating her value by better tests, than that of her worldly brilliance. Allied by descent and substituted by delegation to men, for whose integrity, public and private, future PLUTARCHS may be at a loss to dis cover parallels, you have early been led into studies and reflexions which, though they have given poig.

nancy to your regret, have mitigated your surprise, at the sad and frequent spectacle of proscribed patriotism. You have followed ARISTIDES in his exile from Athens, and CATO in his retreat to Utica—but why do I draw exclusively from antiquity examples of national ingratitude?--You have wept over the uncommemorated martyrdom of a DE WITT, and have witnessed the calamitous abandonment, even by the people whom he loved and whom he served, of a Fox.

Undeterred by their fates, my Lord, may you ever continue emulous of their virtues! For yourself, politically characterised, I cannot utter a more comprehensive or a loftier prayer. If I venture to express a farther wish, that the principles of liberty, toleration, and economy, of which you have already shown (and will, I doubt not, always show) yourself the able, undaunted, and incorruptible assertor, may become more popular than they have lately been, it is for my country.

I remain, my dear Lord,

with sentiments of the utmost regard and respect, your Lordship's very faithful friend and servant,

FRS. WRANGHAM.

Hunmanby, Dec. 1, 1808.