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When he was put on trial for his life 1 he said to the informer, ‘What are you trying to do, fellow ? At a time when war is all around us, you are persuading the State to deliberate about me instead of with me.’
1 Together with Timotheus, for thinking it best not to fight at the Hellespont in 256 B.C. (Diodorus, xvi. 21).
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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