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<dTitle type=main>Plutarch</dTitle>
<dTitle type=sub>The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans</dTitle>
<byLine>by
<dAuthor>Several Hands</dAuthor> </byLine>
<dImprint>Clough Edition, 1864</dImprint>
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<head>Theseus</head>
<p>As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their
maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the
margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but the sandy deserts
full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so
in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men
with one another, after passing through those periods which probable
reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well
say of those that are farther off: &odq;Beyond this there is nothing but
prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of
fables; there is no . . .
