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Plutarch's Morals

veyed figs away, were also thereupon called sycophants. To conclude, therefore, it were not unprofitable for these curious polypragmons (of whom we have discoursed all this while) to know thus much; That they might be ashamed in themselves to be noted for manners and profession to be like unto those who are accounted the most odious and hateful persons in the world.