[6] Leben, Schriften und Philosophie des Plutarch von Chæronea, von R. Volkmann (Berlin, 1869).
[7] De la Morale de Plutarque, par Octave Gréard (Paris, 1866).
[8] Plutarch, his Life, his Parallel Lives, and his Morals. Five Lectures by Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., &c. (London, 1873).
[9] The Greek World under Roman Sway, from Polybius to Plutarch, by J. P. Mahaffy, D.D., &c. (London, 1890).
[10] Mahaffy, p. 321. How Plutarch could possibly have “taken pains to understand” Christianity when, in Professor Mahaffy’s own words (p. 349), he “seems never to have heard of it,” we must leave it to Professor Mahaffy to explain.
[11] Ibid. p. 321.
[12] Ibid. p. 349.
[13] Volkmann, vol. ii. cap. 1.
[14] Gréard, Preface to Third Edition, p. iii.
[15] De Apologetica Plutarchi Chæronensis Theologia (Marburg, 1854). Seibert refers to two other authors who had dealt with some aspects of his own subject—Absolute demum opusculo Schreiteri commentationem de doctrina Plutarchi theologica et morali scriptam ... necnon Nitzchii Kiliensis de Plutarcho theologo et philosopho populari disquisitionem 1849 editam conferre licuit.—We have been unable to see a copy of either of these dissertations, although Trench also alludes to Schreiter’s work. They did not, in Seibert’s opinion, render his work unnecessary; but he enjoyed the inestimable advantage of the friendship of Zeller, who helped him “libris consilioque.”