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Seeing that the Spartans were reluctant to carry on the battle against the walls of the Corinthians, he said, as he saw a hare leap out of the moat, ‘Are you afraid of such enemies as these, in whose walls hares go to sleep because of the men's inaction ? 1 ’
1 Cf. Moralia, 229 D; Life of Lysander, chap. xxii. (445 D).
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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