Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

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

When a garrulous barber asked him, How shall I cut your hair ? he said, In silence. [*](Cf. Moralia, 509 A.)

When Euripides threw his arms around the fair Agathon in the midst of an evening party and kissed

him, for all that Agathon was already bearded, Archelaus said to his friends, Do not be astonished; for even the autumn of the fair is fair.[*](Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades, chap. i. (192 A); Moralia, 770 C; and Aelian, Varia Historia, xiii. 4. In all three places the remark is attributed to Euripides.)