cassandrian

Updated: April 30, 2025

He further told them, "As we see corn-masters sell their whole stock by a few grains of wheat which they carry about with them in a dish, as a sample of the rest, so you, by delivering up us, who are but a few, do at the same time unawares surrender up yourselves all together with us;" so we find it related in the history of Aristobulus, the Cassandrian.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans