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When he captured Carthage 1 by assault, some of his soldiers, having taken captive a comely maiden, came to him with her, and offered to give her to him. ‘I would gladly take her,’ said he, ‘if I were a private and not a commander.’ 2 [p. 165]

1 New Carthage in Spain, 210 B.C.; Polybius, x. 8-19; Livy, xxvii. 7 and xxvi. 42-51.

2 Cf. Polybius, x. 19; Polyaenus, Strategemata, viii. 16. 6; Livy, xxvi. 50; Valerius Maximus, iv. 3. 1; Frontinus, Strategemata, ii. 11. 5; Aulus Gellius.

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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