blare quotes

   The speech is admirable, but the speaker is not to be trusted; for he has never been amid the blare of trumpets.

-Eudamidas   4c
Of a philosopher who had claimed that philosophers were the only good generals. Quoted in Plutarch  Apophthegmata Laconica, 220E (translated by F C Babbitt,1931).

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