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Plutarch
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Definition:[46-120 AD]A Roman who documented the lives of some of his famous contemporaries. He focused more on their personalities and personal lives rather than their accomplishments.His name is sometimes used as an eponym for a skilled biographer.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Plutarch. Life of Marcus Cato
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What was it called — what Plutarch had written? Jane thought it was "Why the Gods Are So Slow to Punish the Wicked," but she couldn't exactly remember.
John Irving. A Widow for One Year, p.240 (1998)
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Some day a Plutarch without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none, but with charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone. Over against this he will write the life of an American statesman.
Elbert Hubbard, Gladstone, Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, volume 1 (1916)
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He had dreamed that he and [his uncle], wearing helmets such as were depicted in his Plutarch, were leading a huge army.Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 16 (Epilogues, characters, etc.)
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when Mary wrote a little book for her boys, called "Stories of Great Men, taken from Plutarch," and had it printed and published by Gripp & Co., Middlemarch, every one in the town was willing to give the credit of this work to Fred, observing that he had been to the University, "where the ancients were studied," and might have been a clergyman if he had chosen.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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