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

Plutarch of Eretria

fl. 350–348 BCE · dates approximate · identity secure receipt — the person layer

The tyrant of Eretria who begged Athens' help and then charged too soon — the man the figure drawer actually holds.

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

The biographer introduces his own namesake: Plutarch the Eretrian calls Athens to Euboea. secure

when Plutarch the Eretrian called upon the Athenians and begged them to rescue the island from its occupation by the Macedonian, Phocion was sent out as general Plut. Phocion 12 Phocion · Plutarch

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

A tyrant wearing his biographer's name. secure Every mention in this drawer is the Eretrian; the biographer of the Lives never names himself in them. The desk keeps the namesakes apart — and notes the pleasure of the accident: the record's Plutarch is a man Plutarch wrote. the other man: Plutarch of Chaeronea (L. Mestrius Plutarchus)

The career — offices and deeds as the record states them

He mistakes Phocion's patience for cowardice and sallies too soon. secure

Plutarch, who thought that Phocion’s delay was due to cowardice, sallied forth with his mercenaries. Plut. Phocion 13 Phocion · Plutarch

Doors — where this identity stands in the house

the record's drawer

he stands in the record — the drawer is this man, curator-verified. Plutarch, the figure — 5 mentions across 2 episodes, counted by the house's first pass.

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

Plutarch of Chaeronea (L. Mestrius Plutarchus) — c. 46 – c. 120 CE

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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