Plutarch

Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútarkhos).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpluː.tɑːk/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.tɑɹk/
• Hyphenation: Plu‧tarch

Plutarch

1. The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
   • 1878, John G. Morris, Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry‎, →OL, page 11:

     I am indebted to […] those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.

   • 1895, Elbert Hubbard, Gladstone‎, →OL, page 100:

     Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.

   • 1903, Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader‎, →LCCN, →OL, page 132:

     I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.

• Plutarchian

Plutarch (plural Plutarchs)

1. Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
   • 1895, O.A. Bierstadt, The Library of Robert Hoe‎, page 164:

     Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.

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