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When someone, wishing to introduce a musician to him, said, in addition to other commendations, that the man was the best musician among the Greeks, Cleomenes pointed to one of the persons near, and said, ‘Yonder man, I swear, ranks with me as the best soup-maker.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 218 C (3) supra, where the saying is attributed to Archidamus II.
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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