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 1 [Title]     |                        LIVES OF EMINENT COMMANDERS. ~ ~
 2     Pre     |    adapted to the characters of eminent men, when they shall find
 3     Pre(2)  |          These brief memoirs of eminent men, interspersed with allusions
 4     Pre     |       manners. For to Cimon, an eminent man among the Athenians,
 5     Pre     |       in this book the lives of eminent commanders. |308  ~
 6 Miltiad     |         Cimon, an Athenian, was eminent above all his countrymen,
 7  Pausan     |        pronounce, concerning so eminent and famous a man, on suspicion
 8   Cimon     |       as his father, and others eminent among the Athenians; for
 9  Lysand     |          as the people had been eminent for fidelity to the Athenians,
10   Alcib     |         ALCIBIADES. ~Alcibiades eminent both in his virtues and
11   Alcib     |  practical intelligence. He was eminent as a commander by sea and
12   Conon     |         greatly obstructed that eminent commander Agesilaus, and
13    Dion     |        followed close upon such eminent and unexpected success,
14  Iphicr     |         IPHICRATES. ~Iphicrates eminent for skill in military discipline,
15  Iphicr     |        own fault; he was always eminent for invention, and such
16   Chabr     |         numbered among the most eminent generals, and performed
17  Timoth     |   father and father-in-law, men eminent in experience and wisdom,
18   Datam     |      XIV. DATAMES. ~Datames, an eminent barbarian leader; his war
19   Datam     |  rejoicing especially that that eminent prince had fallen into his
20  Epamin     |         to the character of any eminent personage; and that to dance
21  Epamin(144)|  actions than of the virtues of eminent men. ~
22  Epamin     |    volume, the lives of several eminent men, whose biographies many
23  Agesil     |         great battle. It was an eminent merit in his victory, that
24   Eumen(188)|        Greece a few of the more eminent secretaries might be held
25   Eumen     |         a strong expectation of eminent services from him. ~XI.
26   Eumen     |      sometimes cut off the most eminent generals, being made prisoner,
27 Timoleo     |        religiously. ~V. To this eminent virtue in his character
28   Kings     |    kings only in name; the most eminent kings of Persia, I.----The
29   Kings     |    absolute authority, the most eminent were, as we think, Cyrus,
30    Cato     | experienced in the law, an |429 eminent, commander, a respectable
31   Attic     |        from it the pedigrees of eminent men. He has given similar
32   Attic     |       he had charmed also other eminent men in the state, of equal
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