He asked for time so that, when he should have learned the Persian tongue, he might conduct his interview through his own self and not through another. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Themistocles, chap. xxix. (126 C); Thucydides, i. 137.
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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