LIVES, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL, AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH. BY JOHN LANGHORNE, D.D. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. III. THE SIXTH EDITION, CORRECTED. London: Printed for G. G. and J. ROBINSON; F. and C. RIVINGTON; 1801. S. Hamilton, Printer, Falcon-Court. PLUTARCH's LIVES. A PHILO PEMEN. T Mantinea there was a man of great quality and power named Caffander*, who, being obliged, by a reverse of fortune, to quit his own country, went and fettled at Megalopolis. He was induced to fix there, chiefly by the friendship which fubfifted between him and Craufis the father of Philopoemen, who was in all refpects an extraordinary man. While his friend lived, he had all that he could wifh; and being defirous, after his death, to make fome return for his hofpitality, he educated his orphan fon in the fame manner as Homer fays Achilles was edu * Paufanias calls him Cleander; and fome manufcripts of Plutarch agree with him. So it is alfo in the tranflation of Guarini. + Craugis in Paufanias; in the infeription of a statue of Philepomen at Tegeæ; and in an ancient collection of epigrams. VOL. III. cated |