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He owned a very beautiful dog, for which he had paid two hundred and seventy-five pounds, and he cut off its tail, ‘so that,’ as he said, ‘the Athenians may tell this about me, and may not concern themselves too much with anything else.’ 1
1 In quite different words in Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, chap. ix. (195 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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