These short biographies are all that remains of a larger collection of lives, which was probably composed in about 35 B.C. They are written in a clear, simple style and are deliberately "biography rather than history". For more details about their composition, see the translator's introduction.
The subjects of the biographies are listed in the table below. The translation is by J.C. Rolfe (1929). The Latin text, edited by P.K. Marshall (1977), is available in PHI Latin Texts.
A translation of the Life of Atticus by Cornelius Nepos is available elsewhere on this website.