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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 6 of 6: Translated From the Original Greek, With Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch Accident, however, rather than defign, gave a fimilarity to the lives of thefe two great men and both were cut off by an untimely death, before they could carry the purpofes, which they had purfued with fo much labour, into execution. The moft fingular circumltance attendinfg their death was, that both had a divine warning O it, in the appearance of a frightful fpeétre. There are thofe, indeed, who fay, that no man in his fenfes ever faw a fpeétre; that thefe are the delufive vifions of women and chil dren; or of men whofe intellects are affected by fome infirmity of the body; and who believe that their abfurd imaginations are of divine infpiration. But if Dion and Brutus, men of firm and philofo phie minds, whofe underfiandings were not affected by any conftitutional infirmity; if fuch men could pay to much credit to the appearance of fpec'tres, as to °vc an account of them to their friends, Ifee no re on why we lhould depart from the Opinion of the antients, that men had their evil genii, who difturb ed them with fears, and difireffed their virtue, leit by a Ready and uniform purfuit of it, they {hould hereafter obtain a happier allotment than them felves Thefe things, however, I mutt refer to another occafion and in his twelfth book of parallel lives, of which Dion and Brutus are the fubjeéts, I {hall begin with the more ancient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.