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When Polyxenus, 1 who was skilled in argumentation, asserted that he had confuted the king, the latter said, ‘Yes, very likely by your words, but by your deeds I confute you; for you forsake your own affairs, and pay court to me and mine.’
1 Cf. Plato's Letters, ii. p. 314 C.
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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