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A certain pirate overran the country, and, when he was captured, said, ‘I had not the means to provide subsistence for my soldiers; therefore, to [p. 339] those who had it, but would not willingly give it, I came with the purpose of taking it by force.’ To this Cleomenes said, ‘Villainy is curt.’
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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