When the young man was determined to take up his quarters at the house of a widow who had three handsome daughters, he called the quartermaster and said, ‘Will you not get my son out of his crowded quarters ?’ 1, Strategemata, iv. 1. 10.
1 Repeated by Plutarch in his Life of Demetrius, chap. xxiii. (899 C), and more fully by Frontinus
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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