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Being held deserving of many gifts, and speedily becoming rich, 1 he said to his sons, ‘Boys, we should be ruined now if we had not been ruined before!’ 2

1 Cf. ibid. i. 138.

2 Cf. Moralia, 328 F and 602 A; Plutarch's Life of Themistocles, chap. xxix. (p. 126 F); Polybius, xxxix. 11 (-xl. 5).

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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