Plutarch Quote

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.


Life of Demosthenes - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)


Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.