When Dionysius, the despot, sent garments of a very costly kind for Lysander's daughters, Lysander would not accept them, saying that he was afraid that the girls would appear more ugly because of them. 1,
1 Cf. Moralia, 141 D, 229 A, and Plutarch's Life of Lysander, chap. ii. (434 C). The same story is told of Archidamus in Moralia, 218 E.