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Artaxerxes, the son of Xerxes, called ' Longhand,' because of his having one hand longer than the other 1 used to say that it is more kingly to give to one who has than to take away.
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes, chap. i. (1011 E).
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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