"[Plutarch's Lives are] crowded with very wise maxims and rules of life."
— Plutarch

January 1, 1970

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David Chytraeus in the anthology Artis Historicae Penus (Basel, 1579), II, 477, quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 142