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Plutarch, Sulla, 19.5

διὸ καὶ τοῖς τροπαίοις ἐπέγραψεν Ἄρη καὶ Νίκην καὶ Ἀφροδίτην, ὡς οὐχ ἧττον εὐτυχίᾳ κατορθώσας ἢ δεινότητι καὶ δυνάμει τὸν πόλεμον. ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μὲν τὸ τρόπαιον ἕστηκε τῆς πεδιάδος μάχης ᾗ πρῶτον ἐνέκλιναν οἱ περὶ Ἀρχέλαον παρὰ παρὰ with Bekker, after Emperius: μέχρι παρά . τὸ Μόλου ῥεῖθρον, ἕτερον δέ ἐστι τοῦ Θουρίου κατὰ κορυφὴν βεβηκὸς ἐπὶ τῇ κυκλώσει τῶν βαρβάρων, γράμμασιν Ἑλληνικοῖς ἐπισημαῖνον Ὁμολόϊχον καὶ Ἀναξίδαμον ἀριστεῖς.  He therefore inscribed upon his trophies the names of Mars, Victory and Venus, in the belief that his success in the war was due no less to good fortune than to military skill and strength. This trophy of the battle in the plain stands on the spot where the troops of Archelaüs first gave way, by the brook Molus, but there is another planted on the crest of Thurium, to commemorate the envelopment of the Barbarians there, and it indicates in Greek letters that Homoloïchus and Anaxidamus were the heroes of the exploit.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Plutarch, On The Fortune of The Romans, 318d (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 318d. And Fortune's son Ihold myself to be. In the Latin tongue he was called Felix, but for the Greeks he wrote his name thus: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Epaphroditus. And the trophies at my home in Chaeroneia and those of the Mithridatic Wars are thus inscribed, quite appropriately; for not "Night," as Meder has it, but Fortune has the "greater share in Aphroditê." Might one, then, after proffering this as a suitable introduction, bring on the Romans once more as witnesses in behalf of Fortune, on the ground that they assigned more to Fortune than to Virtue? At least, it was only recently and after many years that Scipio Numantinus built a shrine of Virtue in Rome;
2. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 2.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
3. Plutarch, Table Talk, 710b, 666d (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Plutarch, Sulla, 13.2-13.4, 14.5-14.6, 19.4, 19.6, 19.9, 34.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
athens	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 108
chaeronea, and sulla	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 30
chaeronea, battle of	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 196, 197
chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 30; Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 108, 196, 197
historicity	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 30
inscription	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 30
local knowledge	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 30
lysander	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 108
marius	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 108
mithridates vi eupator	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 108
sosius senecio	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 196
sulla'	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 196
sulla, l. cornelius	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 30
sulla	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 30; Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 108, 197