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A poor man brought to him an apple of extraordinary size which he accepted with pleasure, and at the same time he remarked, ‘By Mithras I swear it seems to me that this man would make a big city out of a small one if it were entrusted to his charge.’ 1
1 Ibid. chap. iv. (1013 B).
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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