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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 3 of 4: Translated From the Greek Athenians because they protected the people of Egesta, who were descended from the Trojans, whereas he had been wrostged by Laomedon, king of Troy, and had destroyed that city. Timaeus was probably led to write this sort of nonsense by the same critical literary Spirit which led him to correct the style of Philistins, and to find fault with that of Aristotle and Plato. My own Opinion is that to pay too much attention to mere style and to endeavour to surpass that of other writers, is both triing and pedantic, while any attempt to reproduce that of the unapproachable masterpieces of antiquity springs from a want of power to appreciate their real value. With regard, then, to the actions of Nikias described by Thucydides and Philistins, more especially those which illustrate his true character, having been performed under the stress of terrible disasters, I shall briey re capitulate them, lest I be thought a careless biographer, adding to them whatever scattered notices I have been able to collect from the writings of other historians and from public documents and inscriptions; and of these latter I shall quote only those which enable us to judge what manner of man he was. 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.