Themistocles while yet in his youth abandoned himself to wine and women.1 But after Miltiades, [p. 89] commanding the Athenian army, had overcome the barbarians at Marathon, never again was it possible to encounter Themistocles misconducting himself. To those who expressed their amazement at the change in him, he said that ‘the trophy of Miltiades does not allow me to sleep or to be indolent.’ 2
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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