● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). ○ Text that was in bold face is enclosed by equals signs (=bold=). ○ Page references printed in the margin of the book have been moved into the paragraphs near where they appear, contained in square brackets, and begun with the word "Sidenote". ○ Footnotes have been moved to follow the chapters in which they are referenced. End of Project Gutenberg's Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. I., by Plutarch