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Somebody promised to give to Cleomenes cocks that would die fighting, but he retorted, ‘No, don't, but give me those that kill fighting.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 224 B, infra, and Plutarch's 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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