The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines
By: compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea ; translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amiot ... ; with the liues of Hannibal and of Scipio African, translated out of Latine into French by Charles de l'Escluse, and out of French into English, by Sir Thomas North Knight ; hereunto are also added the liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Sicilia, of Augustus Caesar, of Plutarke, and of Seneca, with the liues of nine other excellent chiefetaines of warre, collected out of Aemylius Probus, by S.G.S. and Englished by the aforesaid translator.
Contributors: North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Acciaiuoli, Donato, 1429-1478.; Nepos, Cornelius.; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Richard Field for George Bishop
Published: 1603
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1103
Subjects: Greece -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Rome -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 20068a
"The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Caesar Augustus ... " have special t.p.
"The liues of Hannibal and of Scipio African" are attributed to Donato Acciaiuoli.
Signatures: A⁸ (-A1?) B-5A⁶ a-n⁶ o⁸ (-o8).
Includes index.