He pretended to be amazed at the man who had sold his lands bordering on the sea as being himself stronger than the sea. ‘For,’ said he, ‘what the sea only laps, this man has easily drunk up.’ 1
1 Ibid.
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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