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When Euripides threw his arms around the fair Agathon in the midst of an evening party and kissed [p. 41] him, for all that Agathon was already bearded, Archelaus said to his friends, ‘Do not be astonished; for even the autumn of the fair is fair.1 ’
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, chap. i. (192 A); Moralia, 770 C; and Aelian, Varia Historia, xiii. 4. In all three places the remark is attributed to Euripides.
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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