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Another, when a lyre was brought in at an evening party, said, ‘It is not Spartan to indulge in nonsense.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 220 A (3). For the expression of similar sentiments see Plutarch's Life of Themistocles, chap. ii. (112 C); Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, i. 2 (4).
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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