Isn’t that a recommendation, said Socrates, supposing he proves capable of supplying the men’s needs?
Why, retorted Nicomachides, merchants too are capable of making money, but that doesn’t make them fit to command an army.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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