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SELECTED ESSAYS OF PLUTARCHTRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTIONBY

T. G.

TUCKER

LITT.D. (CAMB.), HON. LITT.D. (DUBLIN)

PROFESSOR OP CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

OXFORDAT THE CLARENDON PRESS1913

HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK, TORONTOMELBOURNE AND BOMBAY

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PREFACEessays here rendered into English have not been selected the very best pieces in Plutarch's Moralia, but, first, as typical examples of his writing in that kind, and, second, as covering between them a tolerably large field of interesting matter. The Moralia offer us perhaps the best of all extant material for judging the civilization of the middle classes of society justas

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before and after the year lOO of our era.

From them and fromcomplete picture of which lay between

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