Plut. Comp. Nic. Crass.

Comparison of Nicias and Crassus

In comparing the men, first, the wealth of Nicias was acquired in a more blameless manner than that of Crassus. For although it is true that the working of mines cannot be highly regarded, since most of it is carried on by employing malefactors or Barbarians, some of whom are kept in chains and done to death in damp and unwholesome places, still, when compared with the public confiscations of…Read now

Author: Plutarch
Chapters: 1-5
Translator: Bernadotte Perrin

Comparison of Nicias and Crassus

Plutarch

translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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Bernadotte PerrinDefaultPerrin translationThe translation of Bernadotte Perrin, as printed in Plutarch's Lives (Loeb Classical Library).In comparing the men, first, the wealth of Nicias was acquired in a more blameless manner than that of Crassus. For although it is true that the working of mines cannot be highly regarded, since most of it is carried on by employing malefactors or Barbarians,…

Nicias and Crassus

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