In answer to the ambassador from Abdera, who, after winding up a long discourse, asked him what report he should make to his people at home, he said, ‘Report that during all the time you wanted to speak I listened in silence.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 232 E (2), infra.
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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