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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46 - 120)

Alias Plutarch [alias]

Greek philosopher and biographer of the first century CE, mainly known for his Moralia and Parallel Lives. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-5141?rskey=ZLlmvk&result=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch Authority - ancient
 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Moralia.
 References in Documents:
MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.) Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

17. Of the Cymbrian Mother in Plutarch who, after her overthrow by Marius, hanged her self and her two Children at her feet.

Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685) (d) Gesner, out of Plutarch.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Opera Plutarchi, vi s. viii d.