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Like the Capaneus of Euripides, he
‘had abundant wealth, but riches did not make him arrogant at all,’
1 and he was ashamed to let men think that he spent more upon his person than the poorest Theban. Now Epaminondas, whose poverty was hereditary and familiar, made it still more light and easy by philosophy, and by electing at the outset to lead a single life;
1 Supplices, 863 f. (Kirchhoff, ἥκιστα δ᾽ ὔλβῳ).
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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