Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of {{{1}}}" ([[s:Plutarch's Lives (Clough)/Life_of_{{{1}}}#1:1 |ed. Clough 1859]]; ed. Loeb).

This template generates a citation of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with hyperlinks to the Loeb edition (on Bill Thayer's penelope.uchicago.edu) and the Clough/Dryden edition (on Wikisource).

As of 2024 this template is categorized under Category:Perseus Project templates for the benefit of anyone looking in that category, even though it does not link to the Perseus Project's copy of Loeb (it links to Bill Thayer's copy instead). But it certainly could link to Perseus, if someone wanted to write the tedious template code to map names to Perseus identifiers.

As of 2024 the only Wikisource Lives with the proper {{verse}} markup to support this template's hyperlinks are Theseus, Romulus, Pyrrhus, Agesilaus, Pompey, Alexander, and Caesar. More Lives will have verse markup added soon.

|1=Biographical subject

Which Life we're talking about. Mandatory. Because of how this template uses #switch, this parameter must exactly match one of the following strings:

Theseus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Numa, Solon, Publicola, Themistocles, Camillus, Pericles, Fabius, Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Timoleon, Aemilius Paulus, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Cato the Elder, Philopoemen, Flamininus, Pyrrhus, Marius, Lysander, Sulla, Cimon, Lucullus, Nicias, Crassus, Sertorius, Eumenes, Agesilaus, Pompey, Alexander, Caesar, Phocion, Cato the Younger, Agis, Cleomenes, Tiberius Gracchus, Caius Gracchus, Demosthenes, Antony, Dion, Brutus, Aratus, Artaxerxes, Galba, Otho

|2=chapter number

A number corresponding to a chapter. Optional.

|3=verse begin

A number corresponding to a verse in the chapter. Optional.

|4=verse end

Optional end of a range of consecutive verses. If provided, the citation will display as "c.v–v" instead of just "c.v".

• {{cite Plutarch|Theseus|1|2}} → Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Theseus" 1.2 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).
• {{cite Plutarch|Alexander|30|1}} → Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Alexander" 30.1 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).
• {{cite Plutarch|Aemilius Paulus|4}} → Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Aemilius Paulus" 4 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).
• {{cite Plutarch|Brutus}} → Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Brutus" (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).
• {{cite Plutarch|Cato the Elder|19|4}} → Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Cato the Elder" 19.4 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).
• {{cite Plutarch|Philopoemen|12|1|6}} → Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Philopoemen" 12.1–6 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).