A girl was brought to him late in the evening with the intent that she should spend the night with him, and he asked her, ‘Why at this time ? ’ She replied, ‘I had to wait to get my husband to go to bed ’; whereupon Alexander bitterly rebuked his servants, since, owing to them, he had so narrowly escaped becoming an adulterer.
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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