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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 2 of 2: Translated From the Original Greek; With Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch From thence he passed to Cyrene, where he delivered the people from the tyrants and civil wars with which they had been harassed, and re-esta blished their constitution. In this he availed himself of a saying of Plato, who when he was desired to give them a body of laws, and to settle their government upon rational principles, gave them this oracular answer, It is very difficult to give laws to so pros perons a people. In fact nothing is harder to govern than man when for tune smiles, nor anything more tracta ble than he when calamity lays her hands upon him. Hence it was that Lucullus found the Cyrenians so pliant and submissive to his regulations. Palmerins takes this for Ptolemy Auletes, but Auletes was not king till the year before Christ sixty-five. It must, therefore, have been Ptolemy Lathyrus. For Sylla con. Cluded the peace with Mithridates in the year before Christ eighty-two. 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.