When Aristodemus, 1 one of his friends, who, it was whispered, was the son of a cook, advised him to curtail his expenditures and his giving of presents, he said, ‘Aristodemus, your words have the stink of a kitchen apron.’
1 Possibly the son of Eutropion, Moralia, 11 A.
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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