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When the people of Argos asserted that they would wipe out their former defeat 1 by fighting again, he said, ‘I wonder if by the addition of a word of two syllables 2 you have now become more powerful than you were before !’

1 Presumably in the battle over Thyrea in 546 B.C. Cf. Herodotus, i. 82, and the reference in Plato, Phaedo, 89 C.

2 The word ‘again.’ They had lost in the previous fighting.

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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