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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Translated From the Original Greek, Vol. 5 of 6: With Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch The care of the houfe and the children now entirely de volved upon Cornelia and (he behaved with foch fobriety. {0 much parental affection and greatnefs of mind, that Tiberius feemed not to have judged ill, in choplin to die for (o valuable a woman. For though Ptolemy, Icing of Egypt, paid his addre'es to her, and offered her a {hare in his throne, (he refufed him. During her widowhood, {he loli all her children except. Three, one daughter, who was married to Scipio theyounger, and two fogs, Tiberius and Cains, whofe lives we are now writing. Cornelia brought them up with fo much care, that though they were without difpute of the noble family, and had the happiell genius and difpofition of all the Roman youth, yet education wasallowoed to have contributed more to their perfeions than nature. 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.