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Plutarch
[ ploo-tahrk ]
noun
- a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
Plutarch
/ ˈpluːtɑːk /
noun
- Plutarch?46?120MGreekWRITING: biographerPHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?46–?120 ad , Greek biographer and philosopher, noted for his Parallel Lives of distinguished Greeks and Romans
Plutarch
- An ancient Greek biographer noted for his ethical insights. He evaluated the character and conduct of many Greek and Roman rulers in his major work, popularly known as Plutarch's Lives .
Example Sentences
Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, and others wrote about black henbane, along with its closely related but less potent relatives, white and yellow henbane.
Sitting with those magazines, it was as if he were studying the chess equivalent of Plutarch’s lives of the Roman generals or Vasari’s lives of the artists.
It was as if his brain was broken, and he went from writing term papers analyzing Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans" to finger-painting.
He wrote him as a patient, learned man who falls asleep with his nose buried in "Plutarch's Lives," humbled by a divorce and deflated by a paltry paycheck.
The libretto was adapted by Adams, with additional passages from Plutarch and Virgil.
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