Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 5 of 6: Translated From the Original Greek; With Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Aving thus prefented, you with the hiflory o'f Agis'and Cleomenes, we have two Romans to compare with them and no lefs dreadful a fcene of calamities to Open in the lives of Tiberiusand Caius Gracchus. They were the fons of Tiberius Gracchus who, thou h he was once honored with the cenforfliip, twice with t econfu date, and led up two triumphs, yet derived fiill greater dignity fromvhis virtues.* Hence, after the death of that Scipio, who conquered Hannibal, he was thought worthy to marry Cornelia, the daughter of that great man, though he had not been upon any terms of friend {hip with him, but rather alwayset variance. It is {aid that he once caughta air of ferpents upon his bed, and that the foothfayers, a ter they ad'conlidered the prod igy, -advifed him neither to kill them both, nor let them both go. If he killed the male ferpent, they told him his death would be the confequence if the female, that of Cornelia. Tiberius, who loved his wife, and thought it more fuitable for him to die firfi, who was much older than his wife, killed the male, and fet the female at liberty. Not long after this, he died, leaving Cornelia with no fewer than twelve childrend' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.