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As Darius was opening a big pomegranate, someone inquired what there was of which he would like to have as many in number as the multitude of seeds in the pomegranate, and he replied, ‘Men like Zopyrus.’ 1 Zopyrus was a brave man and a friend of his.
1 The same story is found in Herodotus, iv. 143, but with the name of Megabazus instead of Zopyrus.
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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