In interceding with Hidrieus of Caria for one of his friends he wrote : ‘If Nicias has done no wrong, let him go free; if he has done wrong, let him go as a favour to me; but let him go anyway.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 209 E and 807 F; and Plutarch's Life of Agesilaus, chap. xiii. (603 B).
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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