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When one of the Persians, by unremitting bribery, had got away from him his beloved youth, and said to him, ‘Ho, Spartan, I have captivated your beloved,’ he said, ‘Not you, I swear, but you have bought and paid for him !’
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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