Another carrying a timber for the palisade said that it was awfully heavy. ‘Very likely,’ said Scipio, ‘for you put more trust in this wood than in your sword.’ 1 [p. 197]
1 Cf. Polyaenus, Strategemata, viii. 16. 3; Livy, Epitome of Book lvii.
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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