Plutarch's
Life of Epaminondas.
The Abbé Vertot—Renatus Aubert de Vertot d'Auboeuf—was born in 1655, and living in the
Spectator's
time. He died in 1735, aged 80. He had exchanged out of the severe order of the Capuchins into that of the Præmonstratenses when, at the age of 34, he produced, in 1689, his first work, the
History of the Revolutions of Portugal,