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then the tyrant, amazed at his high spirit and his fearlessness, said:
‘And why is Pelopidas in haste to die?’ To which Pelopidas replied:
‘That thou mayest the sooner perish, by becoming more hateful to the gods than now.’ From that time the tyrant forbade those outside of his following to see the prisoner.
But Thebe, who was a daughter of Jason, and Alexander's wife, learned from the keepers of Pelopidas how courageous and noble the man was, and conceived a desire to see him and talk with him.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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