Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)

part in the procession in honour of the god, but also dedicated to him

the tithe of the spoils of his Asiatic campaign, which amounted to one hundred talents.

On his return home, he was loved and admired by all his fellow-countrymen for his simple habits of life; for he did not, like so many generals, return quite a different man, corrupted by foreign manners, and dissatisfied...