Greek and Roman lives set in pairs so each throws light on the other, written around AD 100 by a priest of Apollo at Delphi who said he was writing lives and not histories, because a jest or a phrase often shows a character better than a battle with ten thousand dead. Shakespeare took three plays straight out of it.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Parallel Lives shares wording with 1 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
oration in praise of his aunt JuliaBook 13 and Life 34
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Dryden, rev. Clough, 1683. Source: Gutenberg 674.
The text here is the translation called Dryden’s, revised by Arthur Hugh Clough, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 674, set unaltered.
Fifty lives, 725,000 words — the largest work on this shelf. Dryden did not actually translate it; he lent his name to a version made by many hands in 1683.
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