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| Title | Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2 Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, William Langhorne |
| Author | Plutarch |
| Publisher | Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
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