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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 2 of 3: From the Original Greek, With Notes, Critical, Historical, and Chronological and a New Life of Plutarch
Should act. \vhile l'yrrhus, of his own accord, creeping closer to him, took hold of his robe, and raising himself up to his knees, by this action first excited a smile, and afterwards compassion; for he thought he saw a petitioner before him begging his protection with tears. Some say it was not Glaucias, but the altar of the domestic gods, which he approached, and that he raised himself by errrbracing it; from which it appeared to (ilaueias that heaven interested itself in the infant's favour. For this reason, he put him imr..ediatelv in the hands of the queen, and ordered her to bring him up with his on n -lis enemies demanding him soon after, and Cassander offering two hundred talents to have him delivered up, te fused to do it; and when he came to be twelve years old, con ducted him into Epirus at the head of an army, and placed him up on the throne.
Pyrrhus had an air of maicsty rather terrible than august. Instead of teeth in his upper jaw, he had one continued bone, marked with small lines resembling the divisions ofa row of teeth. It as beliet ed that he cured the swelling of the spleen bv sacrificing a white cock, and, with his right foot, gently pressing the part affected, the patients lying Upon their hacks for that purpose. There was no person, how ever poor or mean, refused this relief, if requtsred. He received no reward, except the cock for sacrifice, and this present was very agree able to him. It is also said, that the great toe of that toot had a di vine virtue in it; for, after his death, when the rest of his body was consumed, that toe was found entire and untouched by the flames. But this account belongs not to the period we are upon.
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