Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, "Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness"; and the absence of this in the character of Marcius made all his great actions and noble qualities unacceptable to those whom they benifited: pride, and self-will, the consort, as Plato calls it, of solitude, made him insufferable. With the skill which Alcibiades, on the contrary, possessed to treat every one in the way most agreeable to him, we cannot wonder that all his successes were attended with the most exuberant favour and honour; his very errors, at time, being accompanied by something of grace and felicity. And so in spite of great and frequent hurt that he had done the city, he was repeatedly appointed to office and command; while Coriolanus stood in vain for a place which his great services had made his due. The one, in spite of the harm he occasioned, could not make himself hated, nor the other, with all the admiration he attracted, succeed in being beloved by his countrymen.

According to the 10th century historian George Syncellus late in Plutarch's life emperor Hadrian appointed him nominal procurator of Achaea – a position that entitled him to wear the vestments and ornaments of a consul himself. Then he himself making his way with difficulty after all the rest plunged into the muddy current and at last without his shield partly swimming and partly wading got across. Again in Britain when the enemy had fallen upon the foremost centurions who had plunged into a watery marsh a soldier while Caesar in person was watching the battle daPlutarchd into the midst of the fight displayed many conspicuous deeds of daring and rescued the centurions after the Barbarians had been routed.

46 – 120 AD was a Greek historian biographer and essayist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑrk/; Greek: Πλούταρχος Ploútarkhos Koine Greek: [plŭːtarkʰos]) then named on his becoming a Roman citizen Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος)c. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea Boeotia a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.