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Once in a precipitate retreat his baggage was plundered, and as he ate dry figs and barley-bread he exclaimed, ‘What a pleasure is this which has never been mine before!’ 1
1 Ibid. chap. xii. (1017 B_ is a similar story regarding stale water.
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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