Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

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

He asked for time so that, when he should have learned the Persian tongue, he might conduct his interview through his own self and not through another. [*](Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Themistocles, chap. xxix. (126 C); Thucydides, i. 137.)