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During Plutarch's lifetime, 11 Roman emperors
came and went. The vicissitudes of the great must have
suggested his peculiar moralistic method of comparing
similar lives. Shakespeare relied heavily on
Plutarch. It is the source from which he took the
plots, and in many cases the characterization and diction, of
all his "classical" plays. This borrowing is most
evident in Anthony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus
no rub. my leaf K3 (of 8) Dionis
(part of secundi Libri) begins 72 I8
ends 78 K5
before - Catonis Iunioris IXIIII
after - Marci Brutis uita IXXVIII
Part 2 - book ends [with] Caroli Magni uita cxl
folio 144
-begins [with] Cymonis vita
Part 1 1-145 folio

Biographers of a sort had been in existence for more
than [a] half millenium, though Plutarch was the first
of the Greeks whose work has survived.