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| - | '''Mestrius Plutarchus''' (''c.'' [[46]] - [[127]]), better known in English as '''Plutarch''', was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[historian]], [[biographer]], [[essayist]], and [[Platonism|Middle Platonist]]. | + | '''Mestrius Plutarchus''' (''c.'' [[46]] - [[127]]), better known in English as '''Plutarch''', was a [[Greek historian]], [[biographer]], [[essayist]], and [[Platonism|Middle Platonist]]. |
| :"It is not [[histories]] I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue of vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die." -- [[Plutarch]] (''Life of Alexander/Life of Julius Caesar'', Parallel Lives, [tr. E.L. Bowie]) | :"It is not [[histories]] I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue of vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die." -- [[Plutarch]] (''Life of Alexander/Life of Julius Caesar'', Parallel Lives, [tr. E.L. Bowie]) | ||
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Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist.
- "It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue of vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die." -- Plutarch (Life of Alexander/Life of Julius Caesar, Parallel Lives, [tr. E.L. Bowie])
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