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In the war against Philip, when some proffered the advice that they ought to engage him in battle at a good distance from their own land, 1 Archidamus said, ‘No, that is not what we ought to look to, but where, in fighting, we shall be superior to the enemy.’
1 The policy of Demosthenes (e.g. Olynthiac i. ad fin.).
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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