selected moralia of plutarch
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20th century translation of selected "essays" of Plutarch. A very important ancient Greek text, whose uniting principle is the broad-ranging curiosity of the author. It was rediscovered at the Renaissance where it enjoyed a great influence on Montaigne, Shakespeare, and others.TRANSCRIPT
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SELECTED ESSAYS OF PLUTARCHTRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTIONBY
T. G.
TUCKER
LITT.D. (CAMB.), HON. LITT.D. (DUBLIN)
PROFESSOR OP CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
OXFORDAT THE CLARENDON PRESS1913
HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK, TORONTOMELBOURNE AND BOMBAY
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PREFACEessays here rendered into English have not been selected the very best pieces in Plutarch's Moralia, but, first, as typical examples of his writing in that kind, and, second, as covering between them a tolerably large field of interesting matter. The Moralia offer us perhaps the best of all extant material for judging the civilization of the middle classes of society justas
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