I was looking up the life of Mestrius Plutarch, the greek historian, and this is what google returned:
Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
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(Lucius?) Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; c. 46 AD – 120 AD), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. …
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A Greek biographer who wrote “parallel” lives of famous Romans and Greeks.
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073535672/student_view0/chapter1/glossary.html
Greek biographer; his Parallel Lives was a source for much of English literature, including several of Shakespeare’s plays.
www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Emerson-s-Essays-The-Poet-Glossary.id-95,pageNum-43.html
A roman historian.
www.uprightape.net/UA_Glossary.html
Gotta love that last one.