When the Athenians treated him with contumely, he said, ‘Why do you grow tired of being well served many times by the same men ?’ He also likened himself to the plane-trees, beneath which men hasten when overtaken by a storm, but, when fair weather comes, they pluck the leaves as they pass by and break off the branches. 1
1 Life of Themistocles, chap. xviii. (121 A), and chap. xxii. (123 A); cf. also Aelian, Varia Historia, ix. 18.
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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