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Being asked why it was the custom among them for the younger men to rise up and give place to the elder, he said, ‘So that, having this attitude regarding honour toward those who are not related to them, they may pay greater honour to their parents.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 237 D, infra; Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta, 6, 1-3.
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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