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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Plutarch
Born: 46
Died: 127 (aged 81)
Bio: Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works are believed to have been originally written in Koine Greek.
Known for:
- Parallel Lives
- The Fall of the Roman Republic
- On Sparta
- The age of Alexander
- Makers of Rome, nine lives
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