When Appius Claudius was his rival 1 for the censorship, and asserted that he greeted all the Romans by name, while Scipio knew hardly one of them, Scipio said, ‘You are quite right; for I have not taken such pains to know many as to be unknown to none.’ 2
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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