The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-02-15
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3 u't :! 2. t.~sftf sSS aias9estesea ,tiisss1s
is known from incidental NOTICES 0f HIN
self and his affairs, scattered up And d6s
the voluminOus and lRiecellsMeugs
tings which constitute what ere CALI
Moral Works. These notices hays. hf
picked out, like grains Of gold, from
mass by many cholars-from 'KuaId
to Donaldson. He was .ef good I'D
lily in Ch@ronea; q family xpOt nnlEslI
spectacle in social rank, bat mREkNt my
turn from letters and philosophy .3.R8
year when he first drew 'bfehtth e. n az ~ s.
most Boetion air is unceftaiura Bet
must have been from the ycarrAap. $50
a. D. 50, when Nero was ip GFpeeal ~
he talked in the I" Antony" Of that En(rf
ror's having lived in his time. Ad "
Egypt-he visited Italy, residiHS f6ri
time and lectnriRg in ROmeaai Hosss
Geally a. his hirthPlaee, ~ hsses
his old age in literature. phiIosophK N
the discharge Of local dGtiek St aFcll
and priest of Apollo. He1ivedas lbnk ~
to A.aRl lO6-rthe eigthiyean eltihsi
Of TrNiap. but hcw, ,lpqsh lehGs N HEsll,
tain. He was maFFieds haRRtly n M
man by the name of 1Jino& sfd ald I'D
several sons wiiO "a EtiHl4sd imallI 1
left dvscsndantsgs 0ni ithst wlabId
we know more. gf Plutarcb's pers0ps iss
tory and surroundings than we. da e
many Ot his famous contemporaries - IL.
erature--M Martial, JuEenal, QninF
Seutonius. Excepting the younger Pli0T
indeed, there Is nota man OF letter 81
flouriShed during Plutarch's Tong Hlia
lamiliarly known to U.s. the gpeMtrIabttue
himself, the sovereign of them AlllR 1Sai5
US, included. For the truths, thatthQng
the mere facts which we learn ab0ii ~;
biographer are few, they are suEe
ones while the settiag in MhieAeses sfllal
them--the way in nwhichMeAret t1l1 z,
give US really important infoH1alidi
about his-character and disposition. EkslA
was dash Of our modern Peptssa els4
Boswells in PlutarchAaTgc good ynaafFe
egetism and turn Of gossip aed nuIede,
lie likes TO bring in a story related a. 6i
by his grandfather, Lamprias, or niece
OF advice given by his father, o. als
We ture of his own; which tgndsiY
helped him, no doubt, to the IriendS6ib az
| MOntaiene.y li%--'r--4' ''!s; i1 tftatk4ss I
He'left onsreeoFd lettHEof topa all1I
to his. wife on; lAss sasat hot Aheif sgnehea
lttls Iine<ena, fpd 4 xxx n CbnrR eta
tender letter It is, he ,tells tLe NofId nok
only that He lived at ehaiQh1a tIik ty
=-beeAuse be did not wish Il
place TO become snaaneEg 4evssg geNpn
inhabitant." So, too, as to the fack ~ siia
di>charging the office, Of local maeiegfeya
lie dares say people laGgh iRiieh o. i,
him busy about its details ], hui ibasD
must not be sneered at, says he, nfsSlnl
to the commonwealth. He hat,
all the local, hereditary; family ~
Sonal instincts very strong. kIele lelanlyg
also, had a sweet and. cheerfpE iemh IT,
emHently social and -dOmestied Eiiksnlle1
have been a notable talksr,i aud NJ xAegild
say, too, did not object TO a,,cnp ,Ufs
Accordingly, he much loSed The. =
as literary form; and. be was S61iES =
rate collector of tAble-tale1s netn Ahss
and ana, that many a. the 6t6flea 9AnE
savings Of Heroes %hfth. II AZ u 5tI
Lives" had previously. done serxlcs sll1l! 11d
are met with ip. his other wOpA 4
impossible not to. picture ,hiF t9gaaeSe!
crowned with a frsta garland, aud felIinf
these to his friends. Shy on Plato RhlftH.
place, for instances which heialws15s tpl
as day at once sacred add ,j6y4nA ~
was abundantly learned; in nphiloqApAK q
course; but above, all, wSs. Eich ~ fhs
philosophic temper; and had tNat al III !.
wide sympathy with all thsHgS bts616!
which is the right basis pfaeha&ael1 -
q: true biographies. 4WithOu5 EhnS ~
would never have succeeded eq4RlIE Mel|
in drawing Antony and >Coriolahda lks
brilliant Athehian, Alcipiades, ID {
shrewd old Roman OF the antique schepl,
the first Cato. Quarterly RsviS ssslsss