When the Athenians admitted to citizenship a slave of his, held in much esteem, and enrolled him as a free man, he said, ‘I could wish that one Athenian had not been flogged by me !’
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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