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For when fighting, or sailing, or marching under orders, Callicratidas was
‘one man’; but as general, he comprised in himself the strength and power of all, so that he was not
‘one man,’ when such numbers perished with him. Better was the speech of old Antigonus as he was about to fight a sea-fight off Andros, and someone told him that the enemy's ships were far more numerous than his:
‘But what of myself,’ said he,
‘how many ships wilt thou count me?’ implying that the worth of the commander is a great thing, as it is in fact, when allied with experience and valour, and his first duty is to save the one who saves everything else.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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