When somebody reported that the Athenians had sent an army, decked out with novel equipment, into the Peloponnesus, he said, ‘Why should Antigenidas cry if Tellen has a new flute or two ?’ (Tellen was the worst of flute-players, and Antigenidas the best. 1)
1 There are many references to the skill of Antigenidas; it must suffice here to refer only to Moralia, 335 A.
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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