Plutarch's Lives of Romulus, Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Cato, Pompey ...
Plutarch's Lives of Romulus, Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Cato, Pompey ...
Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne
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But he accuses Gorgias the rhetorician of accustoming his son to a life of pleasure and intemperance, and therefore forbids the young man his society. Amongst his Greek letters, this, and another to Pelops the Byzantine, are all that discover anything of resentment His reprimand to Gorgias cer- tainly was right and proper, if he was the dissolute man that he passed for ; but he betrays an excessive meanness in his expostulations with Pelops, for neglecting to pro- cure him certain honors from t...he city of Byzantium. These were the effects of his vanity. Superior keenness of expression, too, which he had at command, led him into many violations of decorum. He pleaded for Mu- natius in a certain cause ; and his client was acquitted in consequence of his defence. Afterwards Munatius pro- secuted Sabinus, one of Cicero's friends ; upon which he was so much transported with anger as to say, "Thinkest thou it was the merit of thy cause that saved thee, and not rather the cloud which I threw over thy crimes, and which kept them from the sight of the court ?
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