Category: Biographies#Greece -- Biography -- Early works to 1800#Rome -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)
By Plutarch
Classic work by Plutarch.
Total Chapters: 2•Public Domain Free Read
Table of Contents
part in the procession in honour of the god, but also dedicated to him
the tithe of the spoils of his Asiatic campaign, which amounted to one hundred talents. On his return home, he was loved and admired by all his fellow-countrymen for his simple ha...
chapter 14 he speaks of the elephants as the King's, or the King's
elephants, as if the elephants that Pompeius took were merely some that belonged to Iarbas or some of the African kings, and had got loose. Plinius (_N.H._ viii. 1) speaks of eleph...