Hearing another orator say that the season had been snowy 1 and so had caused a lack of herbage in the land, he said, ‘Please stop treating me as you treat a common crowd.’
1 This could hardly refer (as some think) to the unseasonably cold weather in the spring (of 307 B.C.?) recorded in Plutarch's Life of Demetrius, chap. xii. (894 C).
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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