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The MouseionPlutarchLycurgus

LycurgusΛυκοῦργος

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Kind of writing: Biography
Dialect: Attic/Koine
Written: 1st–2nd c. AD
Length: 10,792 words analysed
Vocabulary: 70% common words
In the library: 1 Greek text, 1 English translation

The texts

Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.

Greek textPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. I. Perrin, Bernadotte, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.
English translationPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. I. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.

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