Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives
noun
a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays
Instance Hypernyms: ↑biography, ↑life, ↑life story, ↑life history

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