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Androcleidas the Spartan, who had a crippled leg, enrolled himself among the fighting-men. And when some persons were insistent that he be not accepted because he was crippled, he said, ‘But I do not have to run away, but to stay where I am when I fight the opposing foe.’ 1
1 Cf. the note on Moralia, 210 F (34), supra.
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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