When he was told concerning the ' Birdless Rock,' 1 as it is called, in India, that the place was extreme!v difficult to capture, but that the man who held it was a coward, he said, ‘In that case it is easy to capture.’ 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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