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When the allies said in the Peloponnesian war it was only right that Archidamus set a limit to their contributions, he said, ‘War does not feed on fixed rations.’ 1
1 Repeated in Moralia, 219 A, and in Plutarch's Life of Crassus, chap. ii. (544 B); and Life of Cleomenes, chap. xxvii. (817 E). In his Life of Demosthenes, chap. xvii. (853 E), the saying is put in the mouth of ‘Crobylus’ (i.e. Hegisippus the Athenian orator). See the note on Moralia, 187 E, supra.
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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