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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 7 of 8: Translated From the Original Greek; With Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch In this book, therefore, we shall give the lives of Demetrius, surnamed Poliorcetes', and of Antony the fiumvir; men, who both most remarkably verified that observation of Plato, That great parts produce great vices, as well as virtues. They were equally addicted to wine and women both excellent soldiers, and per sons of remarkable munificence but at the same time, prodigal and insolent. There was the same resemblance in their fortune. For, in the course of their lives, they met both with great success, and great disappointments; now extending their conquests with the utmost rapidity, and now losing all; now falling beyond all expectation, and now recovering themselves, when there was as lit tle prospect of such a change. This similarity there was in their lives, and in the concluding scenes of them there was not much di'erence for the one was taken by his enemies and died in captivity, and the other was very near sharing the same fate. 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.