"Instead of describing the personal appearance of the general and statesman, , in his biography of that worthy, Plutarch referred his readers to a bronze statue of him at Rome opposite the . But to-day the statue has disappeared, and the same is true of most of the manners and customs of the distant past, which were once too familiar for historians to think it worth while to mention them to their readers."
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Lynn Thorndike
(July 24, 1882 – 28 December 28, 1965) was an American historian, noteworthy for his research on and . He was awarded in 1957 the .
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