Plutarch's Lives on Works and Days: “made the reputation of Hesiod, in the collection of maxims known as the 'Works and Days.'”
Plutarch's Lives on Iliad: “Most writers say that Solon brought the great authority of Homer's 'Iliad' to his aid, by interpolating in the catologue of ships”
Plutarch's Lives on The Suppliants: “Euripides's play of the 'Suppliants' is contradicted by that of Aeschylus, the 'Eleusinians,' in which Theseus is introduced giving orders for this to be done.”
Frankenstein on Plutarch's Lives: “Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter.”
The Essays on Plutarch's Lives: “What profit shall he not reap as to the business of men, by reading the Lives of Plutarch?”
The History of Sandford and Merton on Plutarch's Lives: “"No," answered Mr Barlow, "it is now time to retire, and you may at any time read the particulars of this extraordinary siege in'Plutarch's life of Marcellus.'"”
The Praise of Folly on Gryllus: “…baldness; Lucian, the fly and flattery; when Seneca made such sport with Claudius' canonizations; Plutarch, with his dialogue between Ulysses and Gryllus; Lucian and Apuleius, with the ass; and some other, I know not who, with the hog that made his last will and testament, of which also even…”
Lent on Life of Alexander: “He has San Marco's copy of Plutarch's Life of Alexander copied for her”