Epaminondas Is Reported Wittily To Have Said Of A Good Man That Died About The Time Of The Battle Of Leuctra, "How Came He To Have So Much Leisure As To Die, When There Was So Much Stirring?

Epaminondas Is Reported Wittily To Have Said Of A Good Man That Died About The Time Of The Battle Of Leuctra, "How Came He To Have So Much Leisure As To Die, When There Was So Much Stirring?

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Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died
about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much
leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD)
-- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 25

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