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One of the people of Metapontum, being reproached for cowardice by a Spartan, 1 said,‘But as a matter of fact we have not a little of the country of other states’; whereupon the Spartan replied, ‘ Then you are not only cowardly, but also unjust.’
1 Possibly Cleonymus (Diodorus, xx. 104).
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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