Life of Antony, 1.80.3

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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3So Philostratus, having a long white beard and wearing a dark robe, would follow behind Areius, ever declaiming this verse:—

“A wise man will a wise man save, if wise he be.”[61]

When Caesar learned of this, he pardoned him, wishing rather to free Areius from odium than Philostratus from fear.

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Notes

  • [61] An iambic trimeter from an unknown poet (Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2 p. 921).

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