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When someone saw almonds of the hard sort 1 selling at double the price of others, he said, ‘Are stones so scarce ?’
1 Cf., for example, Athenaeus, 53 A.
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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