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Another who was being sold as a slave, when the crier inquired of her what she knew how to do, said, ‘To be free.’ And when the purchaser ordered her to do something not fitting for a free woman, she said, ‘You will be sorry that your meanness has cost you such a possession,’ and committed suicide.1
1 Cf. Moralia, 234 b (37 and 38), 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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