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Plu·tarch

(pl

tärk

) KEY , a.d. 46?-120?

Greek biographer and Neo-Platonist philosopher. He wrote Parallel Lives, a collection of paired biographies of famous Greek and Roman figures that Shakespeare used as source material for his Roman plays.

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Plu·tarchan (-tär

n) KEY or Plu·tarchi·an (-tär

n) KEY (Adjective)

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