The lives of the noble Grecians & Romans, compared together
By: by ... Plutarch.  Translated out of Greek into French, by James Amiot.  With the lives of Hannibal & Scipio African; translated out of Latin into French, by Charles de l'Esclvse, and out of French into English, by Sir Thomas North.  Hereunto are added the lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the elder ... of Augustus Caesar, of Plutarch, and Seneca.  With the lives of nine other excellent chieftains of war. ...
Contributors: North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Thevet, André, 1502-1590; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628; D'Ouvilly, George Gerbier, fl. 1661; Nepos, Cornelius; Acciaiuoli, Donato, 1429-1478.
Publisher: Printed by J. Hayes, for G. Sawbridge
Published: 1676
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1030
Subjects: Biography; Greece -- Biography; Rome -- Biography
Notes: Added t.p., engr.: Plvtarchs Lives.  London, G. Sawbridge, and T. Lee, 1676.

"The lives of Hannibal and Scipio African" (p. 877-911) are attributed to Donato Acciajuoli.

"The lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon ...  Also the lives of nine excellent chieftains of war, taken out of Latin from Emylius Probus [or rather from Cornelius Nepos] by S[imon] G[oulart] ..." (p. [913]-1030) has special t.p. with imprint: Cambridge, Printed by J. Hayes, 1675.

"Prosopographia; or, Some select pourtraitures and lives of ancient and modern illustrious personages, collected ... by Andrew Thevet ... newly translated into English ... generally by Geo. Gerbier, alias D'Ovvilly ..." and "Select lives collected out of A. Thevet ..." (91 p. at end) have each special t.p. with imprint: Cambridge, Printed by J. Hayes, for W. Lee, 1676.

Wing P2634.

Errors in paging; no. 105-108 omitted.