Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

Eudamidas, the son of Archidamus and the brother of Agis, seeing Xenocrates in the Academy,

already well oil in years, discussing philosophy with his acquaintances, inquired who the old man was. Somebody said that he was a wise man and one of the seekers after virtue. And when will he use it, said Eudamidas, if he is only now seeking for it? a