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One woman, observing her son coming towards her, inquired, ‘How fares our country?’ And when he said, ‘All have perished,’ she took up a tile and, hurling it at him, killed him, saying, ‘And so they sent you to bear the bad news to us!’
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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