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Gyrtias, when on a time Acrotatus, her grandson, in a fight with other boys received many blows, and was brought home for dead, and the family and friends were all wailing, said, ‘Will you not stop your noise ? He has shown from what blood he was sprung.’ And she said that people who were good for anything should not scream, but should try to find some remedy.1 [p. 459]
1 The last sentence is borrowed from Plato, Republic, 604 c.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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