When some commended the people of Elis because they were very just in conducting the Olympic games, he said, ‘What great or marvellous accomplishment is it if they practise justice on one day only in four years ?’ 1
1 Cf. the note on 190 C (3), 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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