In answer to the Argives, who were disputing with the Spartans in regard to the boundaries of their land and said that they had the better of the case, [p. 375] he drew his sword and said, ‘He who is master of this talks best about boundaries of land.’ 1
1 Cf. the note on Moralia, 190 E (3), supra.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
