When someone asked why he ordered a frequent change of camping-place, he said,‘So that we may inflict greater injury upon our enemies.’ 1
1 Cf. Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta, 12. 5.
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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