Excerpt from Parallel Lives of Ancient and Modern Heroes: Of Epaminondas and Gustavus Adolphus; Philip of Macedon and Frederic the Great
The early life of Epaminondas is involved in great obscurity; that, though poor, he was de scended from one of the most ancient and illus trions families in Thebes we know, but of the time of his birth we are ignorant; and, though we are told that his father's name was Polymnis.
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