He observed the precept of Polybius, and tried [p. 187] never to leave the Forum before he had in some way made an acquaintance and friend of somebody among those who spoke with him. 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 659 E. Aelian, Varia Historia, xiv. 38, speaks of the advice as given by Epameinondas to Pelopidas, possibly confusing the two Scipios, and the two Lives (of Epameinondas and the elder Scipio)!
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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