Plutarch

NOUN
  1. Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
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  • It relies for the first letter upon the authority of Plutarch, who asserts that the Egyptian abecedarium numbered the square of five (twenty-five); and that it opened with — [Greek] —, which also expresses the god The Land of Midian
  • Plutarch, in his book de soler.animal. speaks against all fishing, [3241] as Anatomy of Melancholy
  • It relies for the first letter upon the authority of Plutarch, who asserts that the Egyptian abecedarium numbered the square of five The Land of Midian — Volume 1
  • Plutarch, _De Iside_, 46 ff.; cf. Zeller, _Philos. der Griechen_, V, p. 188; Eisele, _Zur Demonologie des Plutarch_ (_Archiv für Gesch. der The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
  • Plutarch, wheft he lerfirnt the Rooiu language, which was not till he was somewhat advanced in life, observed, that he got the knowledge of words from his knowledge of things. Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne
  • Carrier writes there that Plutarch suggests "for these believers Osiris is "incarnated" in the sublunar heaven and actually dies and resurrects there" Yet Plutarch implies no such thing, and Carrier appears to be reading this into the text. Mythicist Misunderstanding
  • He evaluated the character and conduct of many Greek and Roman rulers in his major work, popularly known as Plutarch’s Lives. Plutarch
  • Both Philo and Plutarch (De defectu oraculorum) anticipate the Christian Apologist Justin Martyr in explaining pagan myth, ritual, and oracles as the ac - tions of daimones, but Justin's interpretation of them as deceits of the fallen angels and their offspring demons (Dialogue with Trypho, A.D. 155) is the back - ground for Saint Augustine's treatment of the pagan gods in The City of God, Books 1-X. DEMONOLOGY
  • For I am not onely of kindred to thy mother by blood, but also by nourice, for wee both descended of the line of Plutarch, lay in one belly, sucked the same paps, and were brought up together in one house. The Golden Asse
  • Intriguingly, some of his dialogue is directly lifted from contemporary sources such as Aeschylus or later commentators like Plutarch for added effect. 300
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