Meaning of Plutarch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
2. Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives

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Examples

“I am indebted to […]those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.”

“Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.”

“I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.”

“Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.”

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