Plutarch mentions that ( for much later period ) two days after the beginning of the festival " the priests bring forth a sacred chest containing a small golden coffer, into which they pour some potable water ... and a great shout arises from the company for joy that Osiris is found ( or resurrected ).

Plutarch mentions an interesting element of Epirote folklore regarding Achilles: In his biography of King Pyrrhus, he claims that Achilles " had a divine status in Epirus and in the local dialect he was called Aspetos " ( meaning unspeakable, unspeakably great, in Homeric Greek ).

Despite this, Plutarch mentions that this caused little friction between the two men, and even posits that Tiberius would have never fallen victim to assassination had Scipio not been away campaigning against the very same Numantines given the amount of political clout that Scipio wielded in Rome.

Plutarch mentions a legend that Deucalion and Pyrrha had settled in Dodona, Epirus ; while Strabo asserts that they lived at Cynus, and that her grave is still to be found there, while his may be seen at Athens ; he also mentions a pair of Aegean islands named after the couple.

Information regarding the life of Demetrius are drawn mainly from inscription as only Plutarch writes of him, in Life of Aratus, and Polybius makes scarce mentions of him.

Plutarch also mentions that Ptolemy Philopater owned this immense vessel in his Life of Demetrios.

Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles ' olive-wood club.

Levai notes that while Plutarch ’ s De Iside et Osiride mentions the deity's marriage, there is very little specifically linking Nephthys and Set in the original early Egyptian sources.

However, Plutarch, who wrote about Eumenes in his series of Parallel Lives, mentions that it was about lodgings, and a flute-player, so perhaps this was an instance of some deeper antagonism breaking out into a quarrel over a triviality.

Of the ancient sources, both Plutarch and Justin mention Barsine and Heracles but Arrian in the Anabasis Alexandri mentions neither.

Plutarch mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing Atreus deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the heat of action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants crossing the stage.

Sulla retained an attachment to the debauched nature of his youth until the end of his life ; Plutarch mentions that during his last marriage – to Valeria – he still kept company with " actresses, musicians, and dancers, drinking with them on couches night and day ".

For this latter invention, Menes ' memory was dishonoured by the Dynasty XXIV pharaoh Tefnakht, and Plutarch mentions a pillar at Thebes on which was inscribed an imprecation against Menes as the introducer of luxury.

Plutarch specifically mentions the accounts of Cato's close friend Munatius Rufus and that of the later Neronian senator Thrasea Paetus as references used for parts of his biography of Cato.

It mentions a London inn called The Seven Stars that did not exist before 1602, yet it contains elements that are in Shakespeare's play but not in Plutarch or in Lucian's dialogue, Timon the Misanthrope, the other major accepted source for Shakespeare's play.

However Cicero briefly mentions his praetorship followed by the African command, while the surviving Latin biography, far briefer but more even as biography than Plutarch, comments that he " ruled Africa with the highest degree of justice ".

Plutarch mentions the Carians as being referred to as " cocks " by the Persians on account of their wearing crests on their helmets ; the epithet was expressed in the form of a Persian privilege when a Carian soldier responsible for killing Cyrus the Younger was rewarded by Artaxerxes II ( r. 405 / 404 – 359 / 358 BC ) with the honor of leading the Persian army with a golden cock on the point of his spear.

Plutarch mentions her in the context of fourteen separate anecdotes.

Plutarch mentions his paintings as possessing the Homeric merit of ease and absence of effort.

Plutarch mentions flute-players, who were connected with the cult of Jupiter on the Capitol, as well as guilds of smiths, goldsmiths, tanners.

Plutarch mentions ( Marius 10, 5-6 ) that during the battle, the Ambrones began to shout " Ambrones!

In that period, Plutarch mentions, in the work Parallel Lives, a physician from Amfissa named Philotas ( Marcus Antonius 28 ).

Diogenes Laertius reports the story that he was prosecuted by Cleon for impiety, but Plutarch says that Pericles sent his former tutor, Anaxagoras, to Lampsacus for his own safety after the Athenians began to blame him for the Peloponnesian war.

However, Cornelius Nepos, Pausanias and Plutarch all give the figure of 9, 000 Athenians and 1, 000 Plateans ; while Justin suggests that there were 10, 000 Athenians and 1, 000 Plataeans.

In an account by Plutarch, the catastrophic failure of the Sicilian expedition led Athenians to trade renditions of Euripides's lyrics to their enemies in return for food and drink ( Life of Nicias 29 ).

However, as Plutarch implies, since naval power relied on the mass mobilisation of the common citizens ( thetes ) as rowers, such a policy put more power into the hands of average Athenians — and thus into Themistocles's own hands.

Both Diodorus and Plutarch suggest he was quickly restored to the favour of the Athenians.

In his book The Comparison of Romulus with Theseus Plutarch describes how the Athenians uncovered the body of Theseus, which was of more than ordinary size.

Plutarch professes admiration of Solon's elegy urging Athenians to recapture the island of Salamis from Megarian control.

He seems to have been an unspectacular public speaker, although Plutarch notes that he had " the loudest voice of the Athenians.

Plutarch says that the Athenians were likewise instructed by the oracle to locate and steal the relics of Theseus from the Dolopians:

Plutarch was of the view that the Athenians were so angered by this cynical manoeuvring that the ostracism was never to be used again.

According to Plutarch, Nicias explained that he preferred to be killed by the enemy, rather than being killed by the Athenians, who would condemn him if they were defeated.

Besides these prizes of honor, the city of Athens awarded victorious Athenians with an extra 100 drachmas .< ref > From Solon ( 638 – 558 BC ) onwards, for he laid it down that “ the victor in the Isthmian games was to be paid a hundred drachmas, and the Olympic victor five hundred ” ( Plutarch, Live of Solon 23. 3 ).

Plutarch suggests that Themistocles deliberately avoided mentioning Persia, believing that it was too distant a threat for the Athenians to act on, but that countering Persia was the fleet's aim.

Plutarch reports that a conspiracy was discovered among some prominent Athenians, who were planning to betray the Allied cause ; although this account is not universally accepted, it may indicate Mardonius ' attempts to intrigue with the Greeks.

The principal historical sources covering the two are Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War ( VI, 56-59 ) and The Constitution of the Athenians ( XVIII ) attributed to Aristotle or his school, but their story is documented by a great many other ancient writers, such as Herodotus and Plutarch.

Plutarch also reports that Caesar said nothing, pulling his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.

Plutarch says he said nothing, pulling his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.

" Later in the work, however, Plutarch indicates that " her beauty, as we are told, was in itself neither altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her.

Plutarch recounts that Cato saw the commission as an attempt to be rid of him, and initially refused the assignment.

It was a decisive point in Caesar's military career-his five-day campaign against Pharnaces was evidently so swift and complete that, according to Plutarch ( writing about 150 years after the battle ) he commemorated it with the now famous Latin words reportedly written to Amantius in Rome Veni, vidi, vici (" I came, I saw, I conquered ").

Plutarch also reports that Caesar said nothing and merely pulled his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.