When he was dying he gave orders that his friends have no plaster or paint ' used, for this was the way he spoke of statues and portraits. ‘ For,’ said he, ‘if I have done any noble deed, that is my memorial; but if none, then not all the statues in the world avail.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 215 A, infra; Plutarch's Life of Agesilaus, chap. ii. (59 F); Xenophon, Agesilaus, ii. 7; Dio Chrysostom, Oration, xxxv. (466 M., 127 R.); Cicero, Letters, v. 12. 7.
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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