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When Antalcidas was being initiated into the mysteries at Samothrace, he was asked by the priest [p. 301] what especially dreadful thing he had done during his life, and he replied, ‘If any such deed has been committed by me, the gods themselves will know it.’ 1
1 The same sotry is told of Lysander in Moralia, 229 D (10), infra, and of an unknown Spartan in Moralia, 236 D (68), infra.
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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