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To each one of those who comes in to the public
meals the eldest man says, as he points to the doors,
‘Through these no word goes out.’
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1 Cf. Moralia, 697 e; Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xii. (46 d); and the scholium on Plato's Laws, 633 a.
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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