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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives: 1. Alexander; 2. Pericles; 3. Caius Caesar; 4. Æmilius Paulus IT would be absurd to suppose, argues Plutarch in the pre face to his Life of Demosthenes, that a small State could never produce a man of virtue. Plutarch is pleading his own cause for he was born and passed most of his life m one of the smallest cities of Greece, so small, as he tells us with playful tenderness, that he was fain to stay there always lest it should become smaller. This little place was Chaeronea in Boeotia, famous as the scene of the great battle m which Philip of Macedonia extinguished the light of Greek liberty, and hardly less famous as the birthplace of our biographer. 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.