Being truly Great on many Accounts, feems to me to have excelled even Plato himfelf. Beiides, it\is a common Cullom with thofe who take upon them to Tran?ate any of the Works of the Antients, to give fome Account of their Authors: And Iwas willing to do mine that Jufiice, which others, who before me have rendered into Exgli/b lbme Other Parts of his Works, have omitted to do him. Theic were the Confiderations that put me upon colleéting out of his own Writings, and from others of the An tients and upon digeiting into Order the mail re markable A?ions of his Life. In magm's wbgfifit c?; and the Reader mull judge, how well I have ac.