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Lives [select] Translated From the Greek; With Notes
Lives Translated From the Greek With Notes - select Author:Plutarch General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: But, as he saw the tyrants had their hunters beating about for him on all sides, he took three friends and ten servants with him, and fled with surprising expedition into Spain ; where he had attended his father during his praetorship, and gained himself friends. There, too, he found the minds of men full of . terror, and all trembling at the cruelty of Marius, as if he had been actually present ; therefore he did not venture to apply to any of his friends in public. Instead of that, he went into a farm which Vibius Placianus had contiguous to the sea, and hid himself in a spacious cave there. From thence he sent one of his servants to sound Vibius ; for his provisions already began to fail. Vibius, delighted to hear that he had escaped, inquired the number of people he had with him, and the place of his retreat. He did not wait on him in person, but sent immediately for the steward of that farm, and ordered him to dress a supper every day, carry it to the foot of the rock, and then retire in silence. He charged him not to be curious in examining into the affair, under pain of death ; and promised him his freedom, if he proved faithful in his commission. The cave is at a small distance from the sea. The surrounding rocks which form it admit only a slight and agreeable breath of air. A little beyond the entrance, it is astonishingly lofty, and the compass of it is so great, that it has several large caverns, like a suite of rooms, one within another. It is not destitute either of water or light. A spring of excellent water flows from the rock ; and there are small natural apertures, where the rocks app...« less