...particular case, but in epitome for the most part, not to complain. For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives ; and in the most illustrious...where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. Accordingly, just as painters get the likenesses in their portraits from the face...

...illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestatlon of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrassjjr a jest often makes a greater revelation of character...where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. Accordingly, just as painters get the likenesses in their portraits from the face...

...praise in the opening paragraph of his life of Alexander, when he explains : "It is not Histories I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious...revelation of character than battles where thousands fell, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities." Hence the general appetite for trifling facts...

...is able to think historically applies to contemporary history : — For it is not Histories that I am writing but Lives : and in the most illustrious...where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. Accordingly, just as painters get the likenesses in their portraits from the face...

...recognition of the principle could be more satisfactorily complete than that contained in Plutarch's words? In the most illustrious deeds there is not always...phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of chatacter than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments or sieges of cities. — Alexander...

...afraid of a Son of a 1 Beginning his life of Alexander, Plutarch asserts: 'For it is not Histories I am writing but Lives, and in the most illustrious...virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles . . .' (trans. B. Perrin, Loeb Classical...

...is explicit on this point: For it is not Histories (loropfos) that I am writing but Lives (pious); and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always...phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. (Alexander...

...is explicit on this point: For it is not Histories (lorop(cts) that I am writing but Lives (pious); and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always...phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. (Alexander...

...apologizes for the amount of material he has been obliged to omit: For it is not Histories that we are writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds...or the greatest armaments, or seiges of cities.... so I must be permitted to devote myself rather to the signs of the soul in men, and by means of these...

...points to the proper domain of anecdotal narrative when he remarks, "A slight thing like a phrase or jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles where thousands fall." 46 With the renaissance of biography in eighteenth-century England, this emphasis upon the large significance...