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When Dionysius, the despot, sent garments of a very costly kind for Lysander's daughters, Lysander would not accept them, saying that he was afraid that the girls would appear more ugly because of them. 1,
1 Cf. Moralia, 141 D, 229 A, and Plutarch's Life of Lysander, chap. ii. (434 C). The same story is told of Archidamus in Moralia, 218 E.
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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