When he saw in Miletus many statues of athletes who had won victories in the Olympic and the Pythian games, he said, ‘Where were the men with bodies like these when the barbarians were besieging your city?’ 1
1 Cf. in Aristophanes, Plutus, 1003, and Athenaeus, 523 F, the proverb, ‘Once were the Milesians stout and strong.’
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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