Aeschylus 1 wrote referring to Amphiaraus,
His wish is not to seem, but be, the best,2 Reaping the deep-sown furrow of his mind In which all goodly counsels have their root.And as these words were spoken all looked towards Aristeides.
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Aeschylus 1 wrote referring to Amphiaraus,
1 Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes, 592; Plutarch quotes the lines also in whole or in part in Moralia, 32 D, and 88 B, and Life of Aristeides, chap. iii. (320 B).
2 On account of the reading δίκαιος in the Life of Aristeides it has been thought that the actor who spoke the words may have substituted ‘the Just’ for ‘the best’ when he saw Aristeides in the audience.
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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