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Pelopidas, the associate of Epameinondas in command, in reply to his friends who told him that he was neglecting a very necessary business, the amassing of money, said, ‘Yes, on my word, money is necessary—for Nicodemus here !’ 1 as he pointed to a lame and crippled man.
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas, chap. iii. (279 C) Aelian, Varia Historia, xi. 9.
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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