When he dedicated a silver goblet to the gods, [p. 217] he caused the engraver to cut the letters of his first two names, but instead of ‘Cicero’ to engrave a chick-pea. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Cicero, where, a few lines earlier, the derivation of ‘Cicero’ from cicer, ‘chick-pea’ is explained.
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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