Person — one identity, discriminated; every claim below carries its ground or says it has none

Plutarch of Chaeronea (L. Mestrius Plutarchus)

c. 46 – c. 120 CE · dates approximate · identity secure · PIR P 400 receipt — the person layer

The biographer himself — whose name the record's figure drawer gives to another man entirely, the tyrant of Eretria he wrote about.

Who he is — which bearer of the name; the grounds are named

His own aside is the register's spine: a man of a small city, in Rome on public duties. secure

But as for me, I live in a small city, and I prefer to dwell there that it may not become smaller still; and during the time when I was in Rome and various parts of Italy I had no leisure to practise myself in the Roman language, owing to my public duties and the number of my pupils Plut. Demosthenes 2 Demosthenes · Plutarch

How to tell him apart — the record confusing and un-confusing its own names; doors to the other men

The house's 'plutarch' drawer is not him. secure figure:plutarch (5 mentions, curated) is Plutarch OF ERETRIA, the tyrant in his own Life of Phocion — Wave C recorded the judgment when it refused that door on the witness card. The biographer stands in the record only as a voice; his drawer-less row is the honest state. the other man: Plutarch of Eretria

The career — offices and deeds as the record states them

Mestrius Florus — the consular who gave him his Roman name — walks him over the field of Bedriacum. secure

when I was travelling through the plain, Mestrius Florus, one of the men of consular rank who were at that time with Otho (by constraint, and not of their own will), pointed out to me an ancient temple, Plut. Otho 14 Otho · Plutarch

The authorities — the registers cited page-anchored, never reprinted

PIR P 400: his name was Mestrius Plutarchus, a Chaeronean — the register built from his own asides. secure

nomen ei fuit Mestrius Plutarchus, quod confirmatur titulo Chaeronensi I.Gr. sept. I 3423; perspexit hoc primus Keilius. Nomen Mestrii accepit sine duhio a Mestrio Floro amico (cf. infra). Chaeronensis Prosopographia Imperii Romani, Pars III (de Rohden & Dessau, 1898), p. 55 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

PIR's entry cites Otho 14 and Demosthenes 2 — the same served episodes this desk doors; the register and the record hold hands here. The English rendering in the claim line is the house's own; the excerpt carries the register's words.

Doors — where this identity stands in the house

the witness card

This identity is a served author — his vantage, method and reception are profiled. the witness card.

The fights he stands in — the reception record; the house quotes the fighters and picks no side

Plutarch against Herodotus — the attack

The name's other bearers — identities sharing ‘plutarch’; the desk keeps them apart

Plutarch of Eretria — fl. 350–348 BCE

The record here: 166 works · 12,119 episodes served · identities carry claims, claims carry grounds — episode, page, or an honest open · dprr alignment reserved, nothing fetched

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