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FLAMOOUS.' What Titus Quintius Flamininus, whom, we select as a parallel to Philopoemen, was in personal appearance, those who are curious may see by the brazen statue of him, which stands in Rome near that of the great Apollo, brought from Carthage, opposite to the Circus Maximus, with a Greek inscription upon it. The temper of his mind is said to have been of the warmest both in anger and in kindness ; not indeed equally so in both respects ; as in punishing, he was ever moderate, never inflexible ; but whatever courtesy or good turn he set about, he went through with it, and was as perpetually kind and obliging to those on whom he had poured his favors, as if they, not he, had been the benefactors : exerting himself for the security and preservation of what he seemed to consider his noblest possessions, those to whom he had done good. But being ever thirsty after honor, and pas- sionate for glory, if any thing of a greater and more extraordinary nature were to be done, he was eager to be the doer of it himself; and took more pleasure in those that needed, than in those that were capable of

• The manuscripts generally Latin, made the mistake himself,

write the name, incoErectly, Fla- Titus was the name by which Fla- minius, and it is very possible that mininus was commonly known to Plutarch, who was not by any the Greeks, means perfect in his knowledge of