Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans
The complete text of Clough's edition of Plutarch's Lives; containing fifty lives and eighteen comparisons.
Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans
Fact of the Day
When news of the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 reached Pope Urban III, he is said to have died immediately of shock and grief.
Quote of the Day
"The enemy should have to carve his way over heaps of corpses.
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~ General von Below's orders to the German army on the Somme, 1916
On This Day
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