When a man from Megara boasted greatly about his city, Agesilaus said, ‘Young man, your words need a great power to back them.’ 1
1 The remark is usually attributed to Lysander; cf. Plutarch's Life of Lysander, chap. xxii. (445 D); Moralia, 71 E, 190 E, supra, 229 C, infra. Themistius, Oration xxvii. 334 C. The idea was originally expressed by Adeimantus to Themistocles in Herodotus, viii. 61.
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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