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Question 42. Whence was that proverbial speech,
‘Let this prevail’?
Solution. Dinon the Tarentine general, being a man
well skilled in military affairs, when the citizens manifested
their dislike of a certain opinion of his by lifting up of
hands, as the crier was declaring the majority of votes,
stretched forth his right hand and said, This is better.
Thus Theophrastus hath told the story; and Apollodorus
in his Rhytinus adds this: When the crier had said,
'These are the most suffrages;' 'Aye, but,' saith Dinon,
'these are the best,' and ratifies the suffrages of the minority.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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