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Again, Menecrates the physician, who, for his success in certain desperate cases, had received the surname of Zeus, and had the had taste to employ the appellation, actually dared to write the king a letter beginning thus:
‘Menecrates Zeus, to King Agesilaüs, greeting.’ To this Agesilaüs replied:
‘King Agesilaüs, to Menecrates, health and sanity.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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