The Spartans won a victory over the Athenians and their allies at Corinth, 1 and when he learned the number of the enemy 's dead he exclaimed, ‘Alas for Greece which by her ain hands has destroyed so mony men, in number eneuch to conquer all the barbarians !’ 2
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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