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When Damonidas was assigned to the last place in the chorus by the director, he said, ‘Good ! You have discovered a way by which even this place may come to be held in honour.’ 1 [p. 137]
1 Cf. Moralia, 149 A and 219 E. A similar remark is attributed to Agesilaus in Moralia, 208 D, and the idea is also accredited to Aristippus by Diogenes Laertius, ii. 73.
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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