Template:RQ:Plutarch Lives
1683–1686, Plutarch, “(please specify the page)”, in Plutarch’s Lives. Translated from the Greek, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Plutarch Lives/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from an English translation of Plutarch's work Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Bíoi Parállēloi; Parallel Lives; written c. 2nd century) by John Dryden and others, entitled Plutarch's Lives. Translated from the Greek (1st edition, 1683–1686, 5 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:
- Volume I (contents; 1683).
- Volume II (contents; 1684).
- Volume III (contents; 1684).
- Volume IV (contents; 1685).
- Volume V (contents; 1686; archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from|volume=Ito|volume=V.|chapter=– If quoting from one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
| Parameter value | Result | First page number |
|---|---|---|
| Volume I | ||
| *Epistle Dedicatory | To His Grace the Duke of Ormond, &c. (by Dryden) | unnumbered page |
| Plutarch | The Life of Plutarch (by Dryden) | page 1 |
| *Publisher | The Publisher to the Reader (by Jacob Tonson) | unnumbered page |
- As the chapters marked with an asterisk (*) are unpaginated, use
|2=or|page=to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL ishttps://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-lives-_plutarch_1683/page/n4/mode/1up, specify|page=4.
|subchapter=– the name of a subchapter quoted from.|2=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11. - You must also use
|pageref=to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- You must specify this information to have the template determine the name of the chapter quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.
|3=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment about the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Plutarch Lives|volume=I|chapter=Plutarch|page=9|passage=[H]e {{quote-gloss|{{w|Nicarchus}}}} diſputed beſt, and '''unravell'd''' the difficulties of Philoſophy vvith moſt ſuccess vvhen he vvas at Supper, and vvell vvarm'd vvith VVine.}}; or{{RQ:Plutarch Lives|I|Plutarch|9|[H]e {{quote-gloss|{{w|Nicarchus}}}} diſputed beſt, and '''unravell'd''' the difficulties of Philoſophy vvith moſt ſuccess vvhen he vvas at Supper, and vvell vvarm'd vvith VVine.}}
- Result:
- 1683, John Dryden, “The Life of Plutarch”, in Plutarch, Plutarchs Lives. Translated from the Greek […], volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 9:
- [H]e [Nicarchus] diſputed beſt, and unravell'd the difficulties of Philoſophy vvith moſt ſuccess vvhen he vvas at Supper, and vvell vvarm'd vvith VVine.
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