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Title: Plutarch's Morals

Author: Plutarch

Translator: Arthur Richard Shilleto

Release Date: November 27, 2007 [EBook #23639]

Language: English

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_BOHN'S CLASSICAL LIBRARY_

PLUTARCH'S MORALS

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PLUTARCH'S MORALS

ETHICAL ESSAYS

TRANSLATED

WITH NOTES AND INDEX

BY ARTHUR RICHARD SHILLETO, M.A.

_Sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge,
Translator of Pausanias._

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PREFACE.

Plutarch, who was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, probably about A.D. 50,
and was a contemporary of Tacitus and Pliny, has written two works still
extant, the well-known _Lives_, and the less-known _Moralia_. The
_Lives_ have often been translated, and hav