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Nicander, when someone said that the Argives were speaking ill of him, said, ‘Well then, they are paying the penalty for speaking ill of the good !’ 1
1 He was invading Argolis and laying waste the country; see Pausanias, iii. 7. 4.
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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