When he sent Demetrius his son, with many [p. 75] ships and forces, to make the Greeks a free people, he said that his repute, kindled in Greece as on a lofty height, would spread like beacon-fires through out the inhabited world. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Demetrius, chap. viii. (892 B), where the phraseology is slightly different.
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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