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“Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Agesilaus II.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 78b920456a4921579f5b6fa3bdaf4b029d992d11429822507a3d06bebf6d6d4f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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