Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770 |
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Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch. LIVE S , TRANSLATED from the ORIGINAL GREEK , WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL , AND A NEW LIFE OF PLUTARCH . By JOHN ...
Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch. LIVE S , TRANSLATED from the ORIGINAL GREEK , WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL , AND A NEW LIFE OF PLUTARCH . By JOHN ...
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Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch. of them , as foon as finifhed , had the venerable air of antiquity ; fo , now they are old , they have the freshness of a modern ...
Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch. of them , as foon as finifhed , had the venerable air of antiquity ; fo , now they are old , they have the freshness of a modern ...
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Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch . count ... Greeks , fortified with the obe- dience of fubject nations , the friendship of kings and alliance of princes , were ...
Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch . count ... Greeks , fortified with the obe- dience of fubject nations , the friendship of kings and alliance of princes , were ...
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Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch. philofopher ... Greeks , wherefoever they re- fided , whether in Europe or in Afia , whether their cities were small or great ...
Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Plutarch. philofopher ... Greeks , wherefoever they re- fided , whether in Europe or in Afia , whether their cities were small or great ...
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... Greeks that dwelt upon Mount Oetra and near the Maliac Bay , to the Phthiotae , the † Achaeans and Theffalians , inviting them to join in the council and new confederacy for the preferva- tion of the peace of Greece . It took not effect ...
... Greeks that dwelt upon Mount Oetra and near the Maliac Bay , to the Phthiotae , the † Achaeans and Theffalians , inviting them to join in the council and new confederacy for the preferva- tion of the peace of Greece . It took not effect ...
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