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When he desired to correct a harp-player at dinner, and to discuss the playing of this instrument, the harp-player said, ‘God forbid, Your Majesty, that you should ever fall so low as to have a better knowledge of these matters than I.’ 1
1 The story is found also in Moralia, 67 F, 334 D, and 634 D.
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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