The books were Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, and The Sorrows of Werther.

这些书是《失乐园》、《普鲁塔克的生活》和《维特的烦恼》。

Some, including the Greek philosopher Plutarch, pushed back, deeming graffiti ridiculous and pointless.

包括希腊哲学家普鲁塔克在内的一些人反对，认为涂鸦荒谬且毫无意义。

Plutarch's Lives taught me to love and admire the heroes of the past.

普鲁塔克的传记教会了我去爱和钦佩过去的英雄。

Plutarch noted the Ship of Theseus was an example of the philosophical paradox revolving around the persistence of identity.

普鲁塔克指出忒修斯之船是围绕身份持久性的哲学悖论的一个例子。

At this point, as Plutarch said, “creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement.”

在这一点上， 正如普鲁塔克所说， “ 蠕动的东西和害虫从排泄物的腐败和腐烂中冒出来。”

A thousand minae, accordingly, is said by Plutarch, in another place, to have been his didactron, or usual price of teaching.

因此，普鲁塔克在另一处说， 一千米纳是他的 didactron， 或通常的教学价格。

Plutarch did indeed write that account of scaphism, but some historians believe he may have done so to demonize the Persians and make his own culture look better.

普鲁塔克确实写了关于 scaphism 的记述，但一些历史学家认为他这样做可能是为了妖魔化波斯人并使他自己的文化看起来更好。

This remark will be found to hold true, from the days of Lysias and Isocrates, of Plato and Aristotle, down to those of Plutarch and Epictetus, Suetonius, and Quintilian.

从吕西亚斯和伊索克拉底、柏拉图和亚里士多德的时代，一直到普鲁塔克和爱比克泰德、苏埃托尼乌斯和昆体良的时代，都会发现这句话是正确的。

He early manifested a zeal for reading, and devoured, he tells us, his father's dry library on theology, Bunyan's works, Defoe's writings, Plutarch's Lives, Locke's On the Human Understanding, and innumerable volumes dealing with secular subjects.

他很早就表现出阅读的热情， 他告诉我们，他如饥似渴地阅读了他父亲枯燥的神学图书馆、班扬的作品、笛福的著作、普鲁塔克的传记、洛克的《论人类的理解》，以及无数涉及世俗主题的书籍。

And just like the juxtapositions in Plutarch, the parallel between Satan and the monster forces us to consider another juxtaposition, for if the monster so clearly mirrors Milton's Satan, then is Victor Frankenstein supposed to mirror Milton's God?

就像普鲁塔克的并置一样，撒旦和怪物之间的相似性迫使我们考虑另一种并置，因为如果怪物如此清晰地反映了弥尔顿的撒旦，那么维克多弗兰肯斯坦是否应该反映弥尔顿的上帝？