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Whenever Pericles was about to take command of the army, as he was donning his general's cloak, he used to say to himself, ‘Take care, Pericles; you [p. 99] are about to command free-born men who are both Greeks and Athenians.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 620 C and 813 D.
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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