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When he was hit in the leg by an arrow, and many of those who were oftentimes wont to hail him as a god hurried up to him, he, relaxing his countenance, said, ‘This is blood, as you see, and not
Ichor, like that which flows from the wounds of the blessed Immortals.
’ 1

1 The story is often repeated: cf. for example, Moralia, 341 B; Plutarch's Life of Alexander, champ. xxviii. (681 B); Diogenes Laertius, ix. 60; Dio Chrysostom, Oration xliv. (p. 498); Seneca, Epistulae Moral. vi. 7. 12.

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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