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    Plutarch, The parallel lives, Numa Pompilius.

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    The Tsar Plutarch.

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    According to Plutarch, Spartacus made a bargain with Cilician pirates to transport him

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    The myth was rewritten by Plutarch(45- 125 AD) n a book entitled''De Iside et Osiride''.

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    Plutarch tells us that both Philip and Olympias, Alexander's parents, were sent dreams from the gods announcing Alexander's birth.

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    Plutarch's version of the myth of Osiris had a significant impact on the Western world, especially during the Renaissance.

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    A Greek historian Plutarch mentions a Persian queen Parisatis, who was a passionate fan of the game of dice.

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    Plutarch shows that Hipparchus was able to do something called enumerative combinotrix which Pingala had already done a long time ago.

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    These defeats are depicted in divergent ways by the two most comprehensive(extant) histories of the war by Appian and Plutarch.

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    Plutarch considers the famous asterus Aspasia to be the culprit for the war between Athens and Samos for her hometown of Miletus.

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    Plutarch tells us that both King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias(Alexander's parents), were sent dreams from the gods announcing Alexander's birth.

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    Plutarch wrote:"He placed his whole affection and ambition in those purer speculations where there can be no reference to the vulgar needs of life.".

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    Contrary to many depictions, he did not, however, go to the Senate House, as it was being renovated at the time according to Plutarch.

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    Plutarch also gives an account of the death of Archimedes which suggests that he may have been killed while attempting to surrender to a Roman soldier.

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    Plutarch says"Tiberius' death in the senate was short and quick although he was armed it did not help him against the many senators of the day.".

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    Plutarch also gives a lesser-known account of the death of Archimedes which suggests that he may have been killed while attempting to surrender to a Roman soldier.

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    Other stories, including the Roman historian Plutarch's account, suggest that Antony heard a rumor of Cleopatra's death and killed himself, only to find out she was still alive.

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    Other stories, including the Roman historian Plutarch's account, suggest that Antony heard a rumor of Cleopatra's death and stabbed himself, only to find out she was still alive.

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    According to Plutarch, another punishment for cowards was that they had to“go around unkempt, wearing cloaks with patches of dyed cloth, and with one side of their beard shaved.”.

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    According to Plutarch, Spartacus made a bargain with Cilician pirates to transport him and some 2,000 of his men to Sicily, where he intended to incite a slave revolt and gather reinforcements.

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    For instance, the Band's first victory was against a much larger Spartan force in 375 B.C., with one of the Band's soldiers, according to Plutarch, remarking,“We have fallen into our enemies' hands!”!

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    This quote is often given in Latin as"Noli turbare circulos meos," but there is no reliable evidence that Archimedes uttered these words and they do not appear in the account given by Plutarch.

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    The account of the siege of Syracuse given by Polybius in his Universal History was written around seventy years after Archimedes' death, and was used subsequently as a source by Plutarch and Livy.

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    The account of the siege of Syracuse given by Polybius in his Universal History was written some seventy years after the death of Archimedes, and was used as a source by Plutarch and Livy.

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    The acclaimed actor joined one of Hollywood's biggest young adult franchises with a role as Plutarch Heavensbee in the second movie in the series, Catching Fire, playing the former Head Gamemaker who reveals that he is actually allied with the rebellion.

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    According to Plutarch, rather than send his associates off to gather the silver, he instead laughed at the pirates and demanded they ask for 50(1550 kg of silver), as 20 talents of silver was too small of a ransom for himself.

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    Plutarch, however claims that the children were already dead at the time, having been killed by their parents, whose consent-as well as that of the children-was required; Tertullian explains the acquiescence of the children as a product of their youthful trustfulness.

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    Aristarchus' claims were not generally accepted, and in fact some thought he should be indicted on a charge of impiety for suggesting that the earth, thought to be the fixed center of the universe, was in motion(Bertrand Russell, quoting Plutarch about Cleanthes).

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    While Shakespeare gives Brutus and Cassius the credit as lead conspirators in the downfall of Caesar, it should also be noted that, outside of Plutarch(who wrote his account almost a century and a half after Caesar's death), most other ancient sources list another as the key conspirator of the trio.

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    Plutarch's Moralia contains a collection of"Sayings of Spartan Women", including a laconic quip attributed to Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men, she replied"Because we are the only women who are mothers of men.

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