Plutarch

Examples

• The subsequent encounter of the two lovers and their reconciliation is a matter for ironical speculation on the part of Plutarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was to have marched upon Germany, says Plutarch, through Parthia and Scythia, round the north of the Caspian and Black Seas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Plutarch accuses Pericles of bringing it on, because he felt his popularity waned so fast that a war was needed to make him indispensable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But 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. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We know very little of his personality or of his private life; no Plutarch, no Suetonius, has preserved any intimate and living details about him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whereupon, says Plutarch, without further parley Aristides wrote as the man desired. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A thousand minae, accordingly, is said by Plutarch, in another place, to have been his didactron, or usual price of teaching. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Plutarch tells of a pitiful scene that occurred at Philip's marriage to Cleopatra. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This Plutarch makes out to be a generosity, but the issue is more complicated than that. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The volume of _Plutarch's Lives_ which I possessed, contained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Philip, enraged, stood up and, says Plutarch, drew his sword, only to stumble and fall. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Plutarch's account of Antony, which was derived very largely from witnesses who had seen and known him, describes him as of heroic mould. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Herodotus, Appollonius, and Plutarch all speak of previous eruptions. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Typist: Osborn