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1. (n.) Plutarch
a .d . c46–c120, Greek biographer.
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1. (noun) Plutarch
Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
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1. plutarch
celebrated Greek biographer and moralist, born at Chæronea, in Boeotia; studied at Athens; paid frequent visits to Rome, and formed friendships with some of its distinguished citizens; spent his later years at his native place, and held a priesthood; his fame rests on his "Parallel Lives" of 46 distinguished Greeks and Romans, a series of portraitures true to the life, and a work one of the most valuable we possess on the illustrious men of antiquity, and an enduring memorial of them (50-120).
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