At a meeting of the Assembly someone said to him, ‘You seem to be thinking, Phocion.’ ‘You guessed right,’ said he, ‘for I am thinking whether I can leave out any part of what I am going to say to the Athenians.’ 1
1 Ibid. chap. v. (744 A).
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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