Word: plutarch
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...looked at the book she had given me, to change the conversation. Ye nymphs! It was "Plutarch's Lives" in the original Greek! She saw my astonishment, and said triumphantly, "Guess you must 'a' thought girls could n't read Greek. Oh, you college boys is awful silly! Why, I like that ever so much better than novels; but I don't believe you could read...
...Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. Corrected from the Greek and revised by A. H. Clough. Boston: Little, Brown...
...work may be said to have altogether superseded the inferior translation of the one then in common use, Langhorne's. Its republication, in a more convenient and less costly form, will be of peculiar interest to those of us who are familiar with the advanced art electives, since Plutarch is so frequently referred to that it may almost be called the text-book of those courses; it will be remembered, too, that the Plutarch always alluded to in the art lectures is the one edited by Clough...
...third class Latin grammar is begun, translations and themes are required, and sacred history is studied. During the fourth, fifth, and sixth, Greek is added; then Greek and Roman history. At the end of the sixth year the student is in condition to translate Cicero and Virgil, Xenophon and Plutarch. Then follow the classes of Rhetoric and Philosophy, without doubt the two most interesting and profitable. In view of their importance, I beg leave to acquaint you with some details of the course of study in these last years, - details all the more necessary to be understood, inasmuch...