Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

Seeing the priestess of Artemis surpassingly beautiful in her appearance, he straightway marched forth from Ephesus, [*](In 196 B.C., presumably, when he wintered in Ephesus (Livy, xxxiii. 38).) for fear that even against his determination he might be constrained to commit some unholy act.