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When someone inquired why the Spartans wore their hair long and cultivated beards, he said, ‘Because for a man his own adornment is the very best and cheapest.’ 1
1 Cf. the note on Moralia, 189 F (3), supra.
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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