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Alcibiades, while still a boy, was caught in a fast hold in a wrestling-school, and, not being able to get away, he bit the arm of the boy who had him down. The other boy said, ‘You bite like a woman.’ ‘No indeed,’ said Alcibiades, ‘but like a lion.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades chap. i. (192 C). The same story is told of a Spartan in Moralia, 234 E.
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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