When somebody inquired in Sicily on what he placed his reliance in purposing to take his army across to Carthage, he pointed out to the inquirer three hundred men 1 in armour, who were drilling, and also a lofty tower which overlooked the sea. ‘There is not one of these men,’ said he, ‘who would not go up to the top of that tower and throw himself down head first at my command.’
1 As in Livy, xxix. 1; Valerius Maximus, vii. 3. 3.
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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