Biography · 1853
Lives of Eminent Commanders
John Selby Watson translation, 1853
Translated by John Selby Watson (1853)
Cornelius Nepos's short biographies of twenty-two Greek and Carthaginian commanders, from Miltiades at Marathon to Hannibal, with a chapter on kings and lives of Cato the Elder and of his friend Atticus, in John Selby Watson's English prose of 1853.
Contents · 26 parts
- Preface3 paragraphs
- Miltiades11 paragraphs
- Themistocles15 paragraphs
- Aristides6 paragraphs
- Pausanias10 paragraphs
- Cimon5 paragraphs
- Lysander5 paragraphs
- Alcibiades13 paragraphs
- Thrasybulus7 paragraphs
- Conon5 paragraphs
- Dion13 paragraphs
- Iphicrates7 paragraphs
- Chabrias5 paragraphs
- Timotheus6 paragraphs
- Datames15 paragraphs
- Epaminondas13 paragraphs
- Pelopidas7 paragraphs
- Agesilaus12 paragraphs
- Eumenes17 paragraphs
- Phocion4 paragraphs
- Timoleon6 paragraphs
- Of Kings4 paragraphs
- Hamilcar5 paragraphs
- Hannibal19 paragraphs
- Marcus Porcius Cato5 paragraphs
- Titus Pomponius Atticus28 paragraphs