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The people of Seleucia, however, appreciated the wisdom of Aesop1 when they saw Surena with a wallet of obscenities from the
‘Milesiaca’ in front of him, but trailing behind him a Parthian Sybaris in so many waggon-loads of concubines.2 After a fashion his train was a counter-part to the fabled echidnae and scytalae among serpents, by showing its conspicuous and forward portions fearful and savage, with spears, archery, and horse,
1 In the fable of the two wallets, which everyone carries, one in front containing his neighbour's faults, which are therefore always before his eyes; and one behind containing his own faults, which he therefore never sees.
2 Cf. chapter xxi. 6.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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