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\plˈuːtɑːk], \plˈuːtɑːk], \p_l_ˈuː_t_ɑː_k]\
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the Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (a collection of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans that Shakespeare used in writing his plays); (46?-120 AD)
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A celebrated Greek moralist, practical philosopher, and biographer; born at Chaeronea in Boeotia about 46 A. D., the time of his death cannot be determined, but he appears to have been living at an advanced age at the death of Trajan, 117 A. D. He wrote "Parallel Lives" of notable men of Greece and Rome: and a great many "Moral Treatises", including "The Education of Children"; "The Right Way of Hearing"; "Precepts about Health"; "Cessation of Oracles"; "The Pythian Responses"; "The Retarded Vengeance of the Deity"; "The Daemon of Socrates"; "The Virtues of Women"; "On the Fortune of the Romans"; "Political Counsels"; "On Superstition"; "On Isis and Osiris"; "On the Face of the Moon's Disk"; "On the Opinions Accepted by the Philosophers".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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