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Callicratidas, an admiral, when Lysander's friends made him a fair offer that he permit them to make away with one of their enemies and receive ten thousand pounds, although he was in sore need of money for rations for his sailors, would not consent. Cleander, who was a member of his council, said, ‘But I would take it, if I were you.’ ‘And so would I,’ said Callicratidas, ‘if I were you !’ 1
1 Cf. the reply of Alexander, Moralia, 180 C (11).
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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