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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Translated From the Original Greek, Vol. 3 of 6: With Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch AT Mantinea the1e was a man of great quality and power named Cassander who being obliged by aleverse of fortune to quit his own country, went and settled at Megalopolis. He was induced to fix there, chiey by the friendship which subsisted be tween himself and Crausis'2 the father of Philopoemen, who was in all respects an extraordinary character. Ivhile his friend lived, he had all that he could wish; and, being desirous after his death to make some return for his hospitality, he educated his orphan son, in the same manner as Homer represents Achil les to have been educated by Phoenix, and formed him hom his infancy to generous sentiments and 1oyal viitues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.