To his son Philip, who inquired in the presence [p. 71] of numerous persons, ‘When are we going to break camp ?’ he said, ‘What are you afraid of? That you alone may not hear the bugle ?’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 506 C; Plutarch's Life of Demetrius, chap. xxviii. (902 C), when the remark is addressed to Demetrius. That same remark is attributed to Crassus by Frontinus, Strategemata, i. 1. 13.
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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