Selected Essays of Plutarch

SELECTED ESSAYS OF PLUTARCH

VOL. II

TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION

BY

A. O. PRICKARD

‘But the Author in whom he delighted most was Plutarch, of

whose works he was lucky enough to possess the worthier half;

if the other had perished Plutarch would not have been a popular

writer, but he would have held a higher place in the estimation of

the judicious.’—Southey, The Doctor, chapter vi, p. 1.

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1918

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