Being nimble and swift of foot, he was urged by his father to run in the foot-race at the Olympic games. ‘Yes, I would run,’ said he, ‘if I were to have kings as competitors.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 331 B, and Plutarch's Life of Alexander, chap. iv. (666 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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