Learning that his shield-bearer had received a great deal of money from a man who had been taken [p. 149] captive in the war, he said to him, ‘Give me back my shield, and buy yourself a tavern in which to spend the rest of your days; for you will no longer be willing to face danger as before, now that you have become one of the rich and prosperous.’ 1
1 Cf. Aelian, Varia Historia, xi. 9; Themistius, Oration, vii., 88 C.
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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