While he was reading of the exploits of Alexander, he burst into tears, and said to his friends, ‘When he was of my age he had conquered Darius, but, up to now, nothing has been accomplished by me.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Caesar, chap. xi. (712 F) and Perrin's note in vol. vii. of the L.C.L.; Dio Cassius, xxxvii. 52. 2: Suetonius, Divus Iulius, 7.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
