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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives: Translated From the Greek, With Notes The date of Plutarch's birth may be approximately placed in the year 50 of our era, when Greece was decadent and well-nigh depopulated, and an absolu te military despotism prevailed at Rome. Nero came to the imperial throne in 54 a.d., and the apostle Peter entered the imperial city with the message of Christianity only a few years later. 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.