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When the people of Ithaca complained of his sailors because they had put in at the island and had forcibly carried off some of the animals, he said, ‘But your king carne to us, and not only took our flocks, but also blinded their shepherd, 1 and went his way.’ 2
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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