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When Dionysius, the despot of Sicily, sent costly raiment to Archidamus's daughters, he would not accept it, saying, ‘I am afraid that, if the girls should put it on, they would appear ugly to me.’ 1 [p. 309]
1 Cf. the note on Moralia, 190 D (1), supra.
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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