A stranger professed that he would tell him privately and instruct him how to know beforehand those who were plotting against him, and Dionysus bade him speak; whereupon the stranger came close to him and said, ‘Hand me a talent that you may give the impression that you have heard about the plotters' secret signs;’ and Dionysius gave it, pretending that he had heard, and marvelling at the man's clever tactics. 1
1 Cf. Polyaenus, v. 2. 3, and Stobaeus, Florilegium, iii. 65.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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