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Coming upon a schoolroom, he asked for a book of the Iliad, and when the teacher said that [p. 101] he had nothing of Homer's, Alcibiades hit him a blow with his fist and passed on. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, chap. vii. (194 D), and Aelian, Varia Historia, xiii. 38.
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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