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When one of the Athenians said, ‘Nicander, you Spartans insist too much on your principle of doing no work,’ he said, ‘Quite true; we do not make work of this thing or that thing in your haphazard fashion.’ 1 [p. 381]
1 Cf. Moralia, 348 F and 710 F; Plato, Laws, 803 C-D. See also the note on Moralia, 221 C, 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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