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| To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature. |
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| A.D. 46?–c.A.D. 120, Greek essayist and biographer, b. Chaeronea, Boeotia.…His great work is The Parallel Lives comprising 46 surviving biographies arranged in pairs (one Greek life with one comparable Roman) and four single biographies; some 19 short comparisons affixed to the lives are of doubtful authenticity. The English translation by Sir Thomas North had a profound effect upon English literature; it supplied, for example, the material for Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Timon of Athens. A translation by John Dryden was revised by A. H. Clough in 1864.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  pl ´tärk´´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Plutarch’s Lives
Biographies of Greeks and Romans aimed more at the kernel of a man than the facts of his life. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XII.
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- Bartlett’s Plutarch Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Plutarch, 44628 to 44632
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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