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A certain speaker interrogated him in the Assembly: ‘Who are you that you are so proud? Are you cavalryman or man-at-arms or archer or [p. 105] targeteer ?’ ‘None of these,’ he replied, ‘but the one who understands how to direct all of them.’ 1
1 The story is found also in Moralia, 99 E and 440 B.
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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