When a Megarian in the common council used plain words to him, he said, ‘My friend, your words need a city to back them.’ 1
1 Cf. the note on Moralia, 190 F (5), 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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