When Adeimantus lacked the courage to risk a naval battle, and said to Themistocles, who was exhorting and urging on the Greeks, β Themistocles, in the games they always scourge the runners who start before the signal is given,β Themistocles replied, βYes, Adeimantus, but they do not crown those who are left behind in the race.β 1
1 Adeimantus is the speaker here, as in Herodotus, viii. 59; but in Plutarch's Life of Themistocles, chap. xi. (117 D), the remark is attributed not to the Corinthian Adeimantus, but to Eurybiades the Spartan, who was in command of the fleet.
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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