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LIFE OF PLUTARCH.

praises of our author; having first admonished you, that they are supposed to be written on a statue erected by the Romans to his memory.

"Chæronean Plutarch, to thy deathless praise
Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise,
Because both Greece and she thy fame have shared,
(Their heroes written, and their lives compared).
But thou thyself couldst never write thy own;
Their lives have parallels, but thine has none."

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