Regarding their custom of calling the king of the Persians the Great King, he said, ‘In what respect is he greater than I, unless he is more upright and self-restrained ?’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 78 D, 213 C, 545 A; Plutarch's Life of Agesilaus, chap. xxiii. (608 F); also Xenophon, Agesilaus, 8. 4. A similar remark of Socrates is found in Plato, Gorgias, 470 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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