Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 5)

Chapter 92: Of Cleomenes the Son of Cleombrotus.

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Of Cleomenes the Son of Cleombrotus.

Cleomenes, the son of Cleombrotus, to one that presented him some game-cocks, and said, Sir, these will die before they run, returned: Pray let me have some of that breed which will kill these, for certainly they are the better of the two.