Plutarch
/ˈplu.tɑɹk/ noun C2- Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
Plural Plutarchs
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“Or of wisdom, my dear baron—or of wisdom,” said Louis XVIII., laughing; “the greatest captains of antiquity amused themselves by casting pebbles into the ocean—see Plutarch’s life of Scipio Africanus.”
I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet.
“Is this the man?” asked the captain, who was attentively reading Plutarch’s Life of Alexander.
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