Template:RQ:Plutarch North Lives

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Thomas North's English translation of Plutarch's work Parallel Lives entitled The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines (alternative 1st edition, 1579; and 2nd edition, 1595); the true 1st edition published in the same year (London: Thomas Vautrollier and Iohn Wight, 1579; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:

• 1st edition (1579; archived at the Internet Archive).
• 2nd edition (1595; archived at the Internet Archive).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |edition= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 2nd edition (1595), specify |edition=2nd.
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• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
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• Page numbers 862–865 are repeated. Specify the second page numbers as |page=862A to |page=865A.
• Page numbers 890–899 are missing, but the text is not affected.

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1st edition (1579)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Plutarch North Lives|chapter=Sertorius|page=629|passage=They haue raine there very ſeldom, hovvbeit a gentle vvinde commonly that blovveth in a litle ſiluer devv, vvhich '''moiſteth''' the earth ſo finely, that it maketh it fertile and luſtie, not onely to bring forth all that is ſet or ſovven apon it but of it ſelfe vvithout mans hand it beareth ſo good frute, as ſufficiently maintaineth the inhabitants dvvelling apon it, liuing idlely, and taking no paines.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Plutarch North Lives|Sertorius|629|They haue raine there very ſeldom, hovvbeit a gentle vvinde commonly that blovveth in a litle ſiluer devv, vvhich '''moiſteth''' the earth ſo finely, that it maketh it fertile and luſtie, not onely to bring forth all that is ſet or ſovven apon it but of it ſelfe vvithout mans hand it beareth ſo good frute, as ſufficiently maintaineth the inhabitants dvvelling apon it, liuing idlely, and taking no paines.}}
• Result:
  • 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Sertorius”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, , London: Richard Field, →OCLC, page 629:

    They [the legendary Fortunate Isles] haue raine there very ſeldom, hovvbeit a gentle vvinde commonly that blovveth in a litle ſiluer devv, vvhich moiſteth the earth ſo finely, that it maketh it fertile and luſtie, not onely to bring forth all that is ſet or ſovven apon it but of it ſelfe vvithout mans hand it beareth ſo good frute, as ſufficiently maintaineth the inhabitants dvvelling apon it, liuing idlely, and taking no paines.

2nd edition (1595)