Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, PELOPIDAS, section 4

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When he fell a victim to the treachery of Alexander, despot of Pherae, and was put in bonds, he upbraided Alexander; and when the despot said,‘ Are you so eager to die,’ he replied, ‘Yes, I certainly am, so that the Thebans may become the more exasperated, and you may get your deserts the sooner.’ ¹

1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas, chap. xxviii. (293 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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