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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives: Translated From the Original Greek; With Notes, Critical and Historical and a Life of Plutarch In the Notes we have prosecuted these several intentions. We have endeavored to bring the English reader acquainted with the Greek and Roman Antiquities; where Plutarch had omitted anything remarkable in the Lives, to an ply it from other eu thors, and to make his book in some measure a genera! History 0 the periods under his pen. In the notes too we have assigned reasons for it, where we have differed from the former translators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.