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The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 11 — BOOK X

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

This proverb perhaps arose from the frequent employment of the non-Hellenic Carians as mercenaries. Cp. Plato, Laches, 187 B; Euthydemus, 285 B; Euripides, Cyclops, 654.

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