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  1. Greek biographer whose Parallel Lives has the
  2. life stories of pairs of Greek and Roman
  3. soldiers and politicians, followed by
  4. comparisons between the two. Thomas North's
  5. 1579 translation inspired Shakespeare's Roman
  6. plays. Plutarch was born in Chaeronea. He
  7. lectured on philosophy in Rome, and was
  8. appointed procurator of Greece by Emperor
  9. Hadrian.
  10.