When he had come to his end, Demades the orator said that the army of the Macedonians, because of its lack of leadership, looked like the Cyclops after his eye had been put out. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Galba, chap. i. (1053 C), which also gives Demades as the author; but in Moralia, 336 F, the saying is attributed to Leosthenes. Cf. also Demetrius Phalereus, De elocutione, 284.
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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