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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek biographer and philosopher. He wrote Parallel Lives, a collection of paired biographies of famous Greek and Roman figures that Shakespeare used as source material for his Roman plays.
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- proper noun The classical
historian andessayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 CE). Often used as abyword for abiographer , to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch. - noun Any specific
edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
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- noun Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
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Examples
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QUOTATION: I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.
Quotations Plutarch. A.D. 46?-A.D. c. 120. 1919
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8833I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.
Quotations 1919
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78I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.
Quotations Plutarch. A.D. 46?-A.D. c. 120. 1919
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Plutarch, _De Iside_, 46 ff.; cf. Zeller, _Philos. der Griechen_, V, p. 188; Eisele, _Zur Demonologie des Plutarch_ (_Archiv für Gesch. der
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are, in English, Plutarch's Lives, and Milner's Ecclesiastical
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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He imposed on the people of Leptis an annual tax of 3,000,000 pounds weight of oil (pondo olei), which Plutarch translates by the Greek word litræ.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Plutarch is one of Montaigne’s favorite authors and he is not going to let Bodin get away with his rashness.
In Which Montaigne Gives Jean Bodin a Metaphorical Slap in the Face « So Many Books 2005
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The marriage-portion or Dos (which Plutarch translates by the Greek word
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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He evaluated the character and conduct of many Greek and Roman rulers in his major work, popularly known as Plutarchs Lives.
Plutarch 2002
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As with this hero, so with others, till Peggy came to look forward, actually, to the history hour; which shows what a teacher can do when she understands her girls, and knows enough to call Plutarch and his peers (if any!) to aid her in her task.
Peggy Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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