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In 1770, English brothers John and William Langhorne published "Plutarch's Lives from the original Greek, with notes critical and historical, and a new life of Plutarch" in 6 volumes and dedicated to Lord Folkestone. Their translation was re-edited by Archdeacon Wrangham in the year 1813.
Following his wife's death, Langhorne left Blagdon to stay for a while with his elder brother William at Folkestone. There they made their joint translation of Plutarch's Lives (published in 1770) with such success that it was frequently reprinted. In 1772 Langhorne was married for the second time to Isabella Thomson, the daughter of a ...
William Langhorne may refer to: Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet (c. 1631–1715), colonial administrator in British India under the East India Company; Will Langhorne, racing car driver; William Langhorne, clergyman, who with his brother John Langhorne translated Plutarch's Lives
Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Plutarch - Fall of the Roman Republic, Crassus; Livy - Histories of Rome; Plutarch's Lives translated from the Original Greek: with notes, critical and historical, and a life of Plutarch, Volume 1856, translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, Applegate and Co., 1860, 668 pp., pp. 358–371 at Google Books
Plutarch, Life of Aratus, John & William Langhorne (translators), (1770) Smith, William (ed.); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Abantidas", Boston, (1867) This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Abantidas". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
A translation of Plutarch's Life of Caesar by John Langhorne and his brother William published in 1770 was the first source to use the word "carpet" to describe the material used by Cleopatra's servant to sneak her into the palace.
William Langhorne was baptised on 26 July 1631 at St Gabriel Fenchurch, the son of William Langhorne and Mary née Oxenbridge. [3] Langhorne was born in a well-off family. His uncle Needham Langhorne left behind a vast fortune upon his death in 1673, his favourite property being the manor of Newton Bromswold in Northamptonshire.