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17 And we must be careful to offer to chatterers examples of this terseness, so that they may see how charming and how effective they are. For example: The Spartans to Philip: Dionysius in Corinth.Cf. Tryphon apud Spengel, Rhetores Graeci, iii. p. 202; Quintilian, viii. 6. 52; Dionysius the Younger upon being expelled from Syracuse (Cf. Moralia, 783 d) kept a school in Corinth. The expression is somewhat like saying, Remember St. Helena. And again, when Philip wrote to them, If I invade Laconia, I shall turn you out, they wrote back, If. And when King DemetriusCf.Life of Demetrius, xlii. (909 c); Moralia, 233 e. In Moralia, 216 b, Agis (the Younger?) makes the remark to Philip. was annoyed and shouted, Have the Spartans sent only one envoy to me? the envoy replied undismayed, One to one.