How To Use Plutarch In A Sentence
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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
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Plutarch, in his book de soler.animal. speaks against all fishing, [3241] as
Anatomy of Melancholy
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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
The Land of Midian — Volume 1
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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
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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
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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
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He evaluated the character and conduct of many Greek and Roman rulers in his major work, popularly known as Plutarchs Lives.
Plutarch
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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
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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
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Intriguingly, some of his dialogue is directly lifted from contemporary sources such as Aeschylus or later commentators like Plutarch for added effect.
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For as Plutarch saith, [5529] They will be witnesses and trumpeters of their paramours 'good parts, bedecking them with verses and commendatory songs, as we do statues with gold, that they may be remembered and admired of all.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Plutarch writes about an attempt by Xenocrates to calculate the total number of syllables which could be made from the letters of the alphabet.
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For as Plutarch saith, [5529] They will be witnesses and trumpeters of their paramours 'good parts, bedecking them with verses and commendatory songs, as we do statues with gold, that they may be remembered and admired of all.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Entirely secondary, Topsell's research relies on sources like Aristotle, Pliny, Plutarch, and Strabo to build its account.
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Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel ..
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Next to make them expert in the usefulest points of grammar, and withal to season23 them, and win them early to the love of virtue and true labor, ere any flattering seducement, or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, 24 Plutarch, 25 and other Socratic discourses.
Of Education
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Carrier writes there that Plutarch suggests "for these believers Osiris is "incarnated" in the sublunar heaven and actually dies and resurrects there
Mythicist Misunderstanding
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Without it, through little fault of his own, Plutarch is left exposed as the supreme exemplar of the ageless dictum: never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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Well aware that most of the sources on which she must rely were written in biblical times, 50 B.C. to A.D. 150 -- anywhere from two decades to two centuries after Cleopatra was born -- she informs us whether she is quoting Plutarch or Cicero or Dio in her characterizations, and, in the process, these thoroughly feisty, opinionated bards, too, become part of the tale.
Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana
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I say the quadruple or the centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact; Orpheus, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Plato, Plutarch,
Essays — Second Series
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Probably there ran through every vein and current of the Scotchman's blood something that warm'd up to this kind of trait and character above aught else in the world, and which makes him in my opinion the chief celebrater and promulger of it in literature -- more than Plutarch, more than Shakspere.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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And based on this edict, as well as several hieroglyphic inscriptions, people such as Plutarch in 100 A.D. insisted that the root word chem was derived from the name of ancient Egypt, which was called the land of chem, or alchemia.
NPR Topics: News
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So Plutarch, De placit. philosoph., c. 7; from which treatise the above opinions of the various sects are quoted, generally verbatim.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Plutarch writes about an epidemic of suicide by young women in the Greek city of Miletus that was stopped by the threat that their naked corpses would be dragged through the streets.
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For the Great Marquis, who reminded De Retz of the men in Plutarch's _Lives_, was not averse from the practice of poetry, and wrote, besides these numbers, a prayer ( 'Let them bestow on every airth a limb'), a 'pasquil,' a pleasant string of conceits in praise of woman, a set of vehement and fiery memorial stanzas on the King, and one copy of verses more.
Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
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According to Plutarch, Archimedes used a polypaston, or block and tackle, with a large number of sheaves.
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The “point and surprise” which he speaks of as characterizing the style of Plutarch belong eminently to his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The biographer Plutarch also drew on the vulgate tradition, but read widely from other sources as well.
Alexander the Great
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_oxhead and flowers_ which now flourish over every door in the new-built streets of London; but the original of which, as Livy tells us, and I believe Plutarch too, was this.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
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That Pheidias died in prison under mysterious circumstances, as Plutarch says, is a later and unfounded tradition.
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The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are, in English, Plutarch's Lives, and Milner's Ecclesiastical
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1
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Plutarch is one of Montaigne’s favorite authors and he is not going to let Bodin get away with his rashness.
In Which Montaigne Gives Jean Bodin a Metaphorical Slap in the Face « So Many Books
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For example, Osiris was a god, but he was euhemerized by Plutarch.
Mythicism and John the Baptist
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Plutarch says that to die is to be initiated into the greater Mysteries; and the Greek word τελευτᾷν, which signifies _to die_, means also _to be initiated_.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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Phoenicians about 1000 B.C. (10) This alludes to the story told by Plutarch ( "Caesar", 47) that, at Patavium, Caius Cornelius, a man reputed for skill in divination, and a friend of Livy the historian, was sitting to watch the birds that day.
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
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She pored over the canonical texts, particularly Plutarch's account of Mark Antony's alliance with Cleopatra.
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Lastly, her emblem is the Sistrum, and the sound of the Sistrum, according to Plutarch, was supposed to terrify and expel Typhon (the evil principle); just as in mediæval times the ringing of church-bells was supposed to scare Beelzebub and his crew.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Plutarch hath almost made a book of the Lacedaemonian kind of jesting, which joined ever pleasure with distaste.
Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
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The Arabs, I have said, took the flag or water leaf form and departed very far from the Egyptian original (we know from Plutarch that the hieroglyphic abecedarium began with "a"), which was chosen by other imitators, namely the bull's head, and which in the cursive form, especially the
Arabian nights. English
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Cicero, Plutarch, and others — that the atom of Epi - curus was endowed with a so-called clinamen of his invention.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Plutarch wrote in his native Greek and was a prolific essayist, philosopher, biographer, and historian.
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Miliarium vnde diftum fit, difputant grammatici; quo« rum opinionibus reie6): isMeii): er a cippi miliaris fimilitudine vocatum fufpicatus erat Verum ipfe deinde improbauit hanc fuam fufpicionem propter locum Plutarchi in vita Grac*
Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs]..
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Regarded as a major ancient source on tyranny and tyrannicide, it was the only text attributed to Plutarch known and taught during the fourteenth and much of the fifteenth century.
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Mathematum pulchritudo (saith [3327] Plutarch) ut his indignum sit divitiarum phaleras istas et bullas, et puellaria spectacula comparari; such is the excellency of these studies, that all those ornaments and childish bubbles of wealth, are not worthy to be compared to them: credi mihi ([3328] saith one) extingui dulce erit Mathematicarum artium studio, I could even live and die with such meditation,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Roman word "pignus," which Plutarch translates by [Greek: enechyra] ἐνέχυρα, means a thing pawned and delivered as a security to the pawnee.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III.
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Plutarch writes about an epidemic of suicide by young women in the Greek city of Miletus that was stopped by the threat that their naked corpses would be dragged through the streets.
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The "point and surprise" which he speaks of as characterizing the style of Plutarch belong eminently to his own.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Around the first century AD, the Greek historian Plutarch wrote about pirates of Cilicia who practiced the Mithraic "secret rites" around 67 BC.
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He imposed on the people of Leptis an annual tax of 3,000,000 pounds weight of oil (pondo olei), which Plutarch translates by the Greek word litræ.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III.
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Cicero, Plutarch, and others — that the atom of Epi - curus was endowed with a so-called clinamen of his invention.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Handel or his librettist found the story in Plutarch's chronicles of Roman notabilities, which had been magnificently Englished, in the 17th century, by Sir Thomas North.
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-- W.E. B_.] [Footnote 2: Plutarch tells how Sylla's body was so corrupted with these vermin, that they streamed from him into every place: _pasan esthêta kai loutron kai aponimma kai sition anapimplasthai tou reumatos ekeinon kai tes phthoras. tosouton exenthei.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2
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- Plutarch tells us that a statue of Athene (Neith) in Sais bore the inscription: “I am all that has been, is, and will be”.
Jhvh is the enemy of god and man
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Plutarch speaks of Ravenna as in Gaul, which he calls Galatia; but though Ravenna was within the limits of Cisalpine
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
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a procession of women bearing small phallic images and singing hymns in honor of a deity whom he calls Dionysos -- probably Khem or Osiris or Bes; such images are mentioned by Plutarch, [721] supposed by him to represent
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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8833I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.
Quotations
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Some Persic words may be found in Xenophon, and some Latin ones in Plutarch; and such is the inevitable effect of war and commerce; but the form and substance of the language were not affected by this slight alloy.] 79 The life of Francis
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Plutarch records of Lucullus that he died of a philter; and that Cleopatra used philters to inveigle Antony, amongst other allurements.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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QUOTATION: I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.
Quotations
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Probably there ran through every vein and current of the Scotchmans blood something that warmd up to this kind of trait and character above aught else in the world, and which makes him in my opinion the chief celebrater and promulger of it in literaturemore than Plutarch, more than Shakspere.
Carlyle from American Points of View. Specimen Days
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Ninety-nine poets and dramatists out of a hundred would have followed Plutarch and made Cleopatra's love for Antony the mainspring of her being, the causa causans of her self-murder.
The Man Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, for example, dipped into North's translation of Plutarch's lives for the plots of Julius Casear.
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As Plutarch, who wrote a treatise on it early in the second century AD, was priest of a Delphi that was still busy with private and ritual enquiries, it is clear that the real subject was the oracle's loss of authority in political affairs.
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For that cause belike Alexander discerning this inconvenience and danger that comes by seeing, [5655] when he heard Darius's wife so much commended for her beauty, would scarce admit her to come in his sight, foreknowing belike that of Plutarch, formosam videre periculosissimum, how full of danger it is to see a proper woman, and though he was intemperate in other things, yet in this superbe se gessit, he carried himself bravely.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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As with this hero, so with others, till Peggy came to look forward, actually, to the history hour; which shows what a teacher can do when she understands her girls, and knows enough to call Plutarch and his peers (if any!) to aid her in her task.
Peggy
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78I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.
Quotations
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That Pheidias died in prison under mysterious circumstances, as Plutarch says, is a later and unfounded tradition.
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The episode of Alexander's interview with the gymnosophists has come down to us in several versions, among which the one in Plutarch's Vita Alexandri is the most renowned.
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The marriage-portion or Dos (which Plutarch translates by the Greek word
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
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As that gymnosophist in [1571] Plutarch made answer to Alexander
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He was well-read in Greek and Latin literature and found his favorite authors among the great pagans expositors of tolerance and secularism - Plato, Plutarch, Cicero, the Skeptics and Epicureans.
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There should be a brilliant preface, introducing the seven sages to each other and the reader, after the ensample of Plutarch, and exhausting all the antiquarianism, all the memoirism, and all the varia-lectionism of the subject.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
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Around the first century AD, the Greek historian Plutarch wrote about pirates of Cilicia who practiced the Mithraic "secret rites" around 67 BC.
