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Teleclus the king answered his brother, who complained against the citizens because they conducted themselves with less consideration towards him than towards the king, by saying, ‘The reason is that you do not know how to submit to injustice.’ 1 [p. 123]
1 Repeated in Moralia, 232 B, infra; cf. also the similar remark of Chilon reported in Diogenes Laertius, i. 68, and the general statement in Menander's Farmer, Kock, Com. Att. Frag. iii. p. 29, Menander no. 95; or Allinson's Menander in L.C.L., p. 338.
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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