[11]. As Volkmann happily puts it, he writes ‘with comfortable breadth’.
[12]. The sentences would doubtless have been easier still if Plutarch had not felt bound to follow the fashion of the time and elaborately avoid hiatus.
[13]. Perhaps this is why Plutarch, as seen through Amyot, appeared to Montaigne ‘close and thorny,’ while his sense was nevertheless ‘closely-jointed and pithily-continued’.
[14]. Stobaeus (sixth century) had access to much of Plutarch that is now lost.
[15]. See an observation of Professor Summers, Seneca Select Letters, Introduction, p. lxxiv.
[16]. Plutarch ‘is the theme of more than 230 allusions or direct references on the part of Jeremy Taylor’ (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, i. 300).
[17]. He was familiar reading of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and appears in the Gesta Romanorum. Later the Adagia of Erasmus draw freely upon him.
[18]. ‘Il a en quelque sorte créé Plutarque,’ says Demogeot.
[19]. Euphues appeared in 1579. Jusserand (The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare, p. 127) remarks that Euphues ‘addresses moral epistles to his fellow men to guide them through life’, but he appears to be unaware that Lyly borrowed this object, as well as so large a quantity of his matter, from Plutarch.
[20]. We meet, for example, with the story of Zeno, ‘the olde man in Athens that amiddest the pottes could hold his peace.’