Plut. Comp. Pel. Marc.

Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus

This is what I have thought worthy of record in what historians say about Marcellus and Pelopidas. In their natures and dispositions they were almost exactly alike, since both were valiant, laborious, passionate, and magnanimous; and there would seem to have been this difference only between them, that Marcellus committed slaughter in many cities which he reduced, while Epaminondas and Pelopidas…Read now
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Bernadotte Perrin

Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus

Plutarch

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Pelopidas and Marcellus

Marcellus

Plutarch's Lives

Life of MarcellusLife of Aristides
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