Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, EPAMEINONDAS <a id="note-link1" href="#note1">1</a> , section 6 <a href="#note-link1">1</a> Famous Theban general and statesman, 420-362 B.C. These says were doubtless incorporated in Plutarch's Life of Epameinondas, now lost. A collection of stories about Epameinondas will be found in Polyaenus, Strategemata, ii. 3.</p>

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While the city was keeping holiday, and all were busy with drinking and social enjoyment, Epameinondas, as he was walking along unwashed and absorbed in thought, met one of his intimate friends, who inquired in surprise why it was that he alone was going about in that state. ‘So that all of you,’ said he, ‘may get drunk and have a holiday.’ ¹

1 Cf. 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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