Examples of using Plutarch in English and their translations into Chinese
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Plutarch mentions the rumour that before Antony reached 20 years of age, he was already indebted the sum of 250 talents(equivalent to several million dollars).
According to Plutarch he was an extremely adept student, learning so well and rapidly that he attracted attention from all over Rome.
Plutarch wrote:“He placed his whole affection and ambition in those purer speculations where there can be no reference to the vulgar needs of life.”.
Plutarch and Frontinus write of expeditions under the command of"Clodius the praetor" and"Publius Varinus", while Appian writes of"Varinius Glaber" and"Publius Valerius".
Plutarch, in 60 A.D., writes:“That filtered wine neither inflames the brain nor infects the mind and the passions, and is much more pleasant to drink.”.
Around 90 A.D., Plutarch wrote that those blemishes were the shadows of mountains and valleys and that the moon must be habitable.
So let's go back even further, to Plutarch, who said that,"The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.".
Plutarch wrote that too much rouge made a woman look showy, while Martial mocked women, believing that rouge was in danger of melting in the sun.
Bradley, Slavery and Rebellion, pp. 96; Plutarch, Crassus 9:7; Livy, Periochae, 96:6.- Bradley identifies Gaius Cassius Longinus as the governor of Cisalpine Gaul at the time.
But even Plutarch, who never met her either, said that her beauty was in her vivacity and her voice, and not in her appearance.
Plutarch Heavensbee.
Plutarch Haymitch.
Plutarch Pyrrhus.
Virgil Plutarch.
Plutarch Alexander.
Plutarch On the Fortunes of Alexander.
Plutarch mentioned that Anthonyus had won a triumph.
Plutarch in A D 60.
Plutarch recounts a few other stories as well.
And then we were very disposable- right, Plutarch?