Being urged to hear a man who gave an imitation of the nightingale's voice, he said, ‘I hae heard the bird itsel' mony a time.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 212 F and 213 C, infra Plutarch's Life of Agesilaus, chap. xxi. (607 E); and Life of Lycurgus, chap. xx. (52 E).
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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