Ἀποφθέγματα βασιλέων καὶ στρατηγῶν

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81.21 He pretended to be amazed at the man who had sold his lands bordering on the sea as being himself stronger than the sea. For, said he, what the sea only laps, this man has easily drunk up. Ibid.

81.22 When he was a candidate for the censorship, and saw the other candidates soliciting the populace and flattering them, he himself cried out that the e C/. Plutarch’s Life of M. Cato, chap. viii. (340 d). d Ibid. people had need of a stern physician and a thorough cleansing; they must choose not the most agreeable but the most inexorable man. As a result of his words he was the first choice of the electors. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of M. Cato, chap. xvi. (345 D).

81.23 In instructing the young men to fight boldly, he said that ofttimes talk is better than the sword and the voice better than the hand to rout and bewilder the enemy. Ibid. chap. i. (336 E); cf. also Plutarch’s Life of Coriolanus, chap. viii. (216 F); Life of M. Cato, chap. x. (241 F).

81.24 When he was waging war against the peoples living by the river Baetis, In 195 B.C. in Spain. he was put in great peril by the vast numbers of the enemy. The Celtiberians were ready and willing to come to his aid for forty thousand pounds, but the other Romans were against agreeing to pay barbarian men. Cato said they were all wrong; for if they were victorious, the payment would come not from themselves, but from the enemy; and if they were vanquished there would be no debtors and no creditors. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of M. Cato, chap. x. (341 F).