. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... PLA teach him to read, but employed him tokeep the hogs at his country house. Hav-ing lopt one of them, Pizarro took flight,and embarked for he first ilistinguished himself, in1513, under Nunez dc Balboa. In ,in conjunction with AIninn;ro,he discoveredPeru. Charles the Filth gave him thegovernment of the new-found country. Byforce and fraud he achieved the conquestof Peru, in In 1537 a contest arosebetween Pixarro and Almagro, which ter-minated in the
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... PLA teach him to read, but employed him tokeep the hogs at his country house. Hav-ing lopt one of them, Pizarro took flight,and embarked for he first ilistinguished himself, in1513, under Nunez dc Balboa. In ,in conjunction with AIninn;ro,he discoveredPeru. Charles the Filth gave him thegovernment of the new-found country. Byforce and fraud he achieved the conquestof Peru, in In 1537 a contest arosebetween Pixarro and Almagro, which ter-minated in the defeat and execution of thelatter. The son of Almagro, however,avtmged his father, for, in loll, he andsome of his friends assassinated Pizarro,in his palace at , Fhancis, the conquerorof Peru, was born, in 1475, at Truxillo,in Eslremadnra, and was the natural son»f a gentleman. His father did not even PLATO, an illustrious Grecian ])hilost}-plier, the foundt-r of the academic, sect,was styled the Divine by the ancients;was born, n. c. 430, in the island of iEgina;was educated with the utmost care; and,at the age of twtmty, became the discipleof Socrates. After the death of Socrates,Plato visited ]\Iagiia Grajcia and Egypt,in search of knowledge. On his return toAthens, he opened a philosuphical school,and soon nuinbered among his pupils manydistinguished characters. Plato thricevisited tiic court of Sicily; once invitedl)y the elder Dionvsius, and twice by theyounger. The former he so much offended,that the tyrant caused him to l;>c seized onhis passage home and sold for a slave; andthe philosopher was indebted for his libe-ration to Aniceris of Cyrene. He diedM. C. 347. His memory was hnioured bystatues and altars, and his birth
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