Plutarch's lives. Translated from the original Greek. With notes critical and historical; and a life of Plutarch, by S. Langhorne, D.D. William Langhorne, A.M. John Dryden, &c. - Softcover

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National Library of Scotland

T172996

The titlepage to vol. 1 is of a different setting to that of the edition with a comma after "lives", a full stop after "Plutarch", and the first bookseller's name spelt "Elliott".

Edinburgh : printed for C. Elliot, W. Creech, and R. Munro, also J. Lackinton, 1795. 6v. ; 12°

About the Introducer
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON has written extensively on both ancient Greek and military history; his ?fteen books include The Western Way of War and Between War and Peace. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno.

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