According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch he fled to Lampsacus due to a backlash against his pupil Pericles.

According to Fabius ' biographer Plutarch, Fabius possessed a mild temper and slowness in speaking.

According to Eusebius and Plutarch, Herodotus was granted a financial reward by the Athenian assembly in recognition of his work and there may be some truth in this.

According to Plutarch, as Caesar arrived at the Senate, Tillius Cimber presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.

According to Plutarch, he said in Latin, " Casca, you villain, what are you doing?

According to Plutarch, Antony threw her out of his house in Rome, because she slept with his friend, the tribune Publius Cornelius Dolabella.

According to Plutarch, Seleucus even proved the heliocentric system, but it is not known what arguments he used ( except that he correctly theorized on tides as a result of Moon's attraction ).

* According to Plutarch, the ostracism was considered valid if the total number of votes cast was at least 6, 000.

According to Plutarch, Spartan society twice underwent major upheavals sparked by ephors ' dreams at the shrine during the Hellenistic era.

According to Plutarch, Seleucus was the first to prove the heliocentric system through reasoning, but it is not known what arguments he used.

According to Plutarch, Vercingetorix surrendered in dramatic fashion, riding his beautifully adorned horse out of Alesia and around Caesar's camp before dismounting in front of Caesar, stripping himself of his armor and sitting down at his opponent's feet, where he remained motionless until he was taken away.

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.

According to Plutarch, Demosthenes employed Isaeus as his master in Rhetoric, even though Isocrates was then teaching this subject, either because he could not pay Isocrates the prescribed fee or because Demosthenes believed Isaeus ' style better suited a vigorous and astute orator such as himself.

According to Plutarch, when Demosthenes first addressed himself to the people, he was derided for his strange and uncouth style, " which was cumbered with long sentences and tortured with formal arguments to a most harsh and disagreeable excess ".

According to Plutarch, Seleucus even proved the heliocentric system, but it is not known what arguments he used.

According to Plutarch, this is the reason the Egyptians had a taboo against eating fish.

According to Herodotus the country was bound by Solon to maintain his reforms for 10 years, whereas according to Plutarch and the author of Athenaion Politeia ( reputedly Aristotle ) the contracted period was instead 100 years.

According to Plutarch however, Solon originally wrote poetry for amusement, discussing pleasure in a popular rather than philosophical way.

According to Plutarch, Solon was related to the tyrant Pisistratus ( their mothers were cousins ).

According to Plutarch, he spent some time and discussed philosophy with two Egyptian priests, Psenophis of Heliopolis and Sonchis of Sais.

According to Herodotus and Plutarch, he met with Croesus and gave the Lydian king advice, which however Croesus failed to appreciate until it was too late.

According to Plutarch, Cleopatra took flight with her ships at the height of the battle and Antony followed her.

According to Valerius Maximus: " When the senate decreed that the temples of Isis and Serapis be demolished and none of the workmen dared touch them, Consul L. Aemilius Paullus took off his official gown, seized an axe, and dashed it against the doors of that temple.

According to a 17th century chronicler, Ibrahim had asked Suleiman not to promote him to such high positions, fearing for his safety ; to which Suleiman replied that under his reign no matter what the circumstance, Ibrahim would never be put to death.

According to one story, when he was asked to name the three most important elements in oratory, he replied " Delivery, delivery and delivery!

According to Howard K. Smith, who covered the executions for the International News Service, Rosenberg was the only condemned man, who when asked at the gallows if he had any last statement to make, replied with only one word: " No ".

According to records from Japanese documents, Mao Changxi ( 毛昶熙 ) and Dong Xun ( 董恂 ), the Qing ministers at Zongli Yamen ( 總理衙門 ) who handled the complaints from Japanese envoy Yanagihara Sakimitsu ( 柳原前光 ) replied first that they had heard only of a massacre of Ryūkyūans, not of Japanese, and quickly noted that Ryūkyū was under Chinese suzerainty, therefore this issue was not Japan's business.

According to the Internet Movie Database, Chaplin, after being told Hitler saw the movie, replied: " I'd give anything to know what he thought of it.

According to Fowler, John Barrymore roused as if to say something to his brother Lionel ; Lionel asked him to repeat himself, and he simply replied, " You heard me, Mike.

According to Jesus, as we find it written in John 18: 37, Jesus thus describes his mission: " came into the world ... to bear witness to the truth ; and all who are on the side of truth listen to voice ", to which Pilate famously replied, " What is truth?

According to the transcripts, Kelly replied " I will go a little further than that, and say I will see you there when I go ".

According to Groucho's own story, when the group became the Three Marx Brothers, the studio wanted to trim their collective salary, and Groucho replied " We're twice as funny without Zeppo!

According to Amin's account, when Hitler expounded his view that the Jews were responsible for WW1, Marxism and its revolutions, and this was why the task of Germans was to persevere in a battle without mercy against the Jews, he replied :-

According to a popular legend, Fabre complained bitterly about the injustice done to him on the way to the scaffold, whereupon Danton replied with supreme sarcasm: " Des vers ... Avant huit jours, tu en feras plus que tu n ' en voudras!

According to an eyewitness report, when asked on his deathbed what his religion was, Field replied with a characteristic pun: " I am not a Calvinist, but a Claveciniste.

According to Fuller, Mildmay, on coming to court, after the college was opened was addressed by the Queen with the words: " Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation ", to which Mildmay replied: " No, madam ; far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof ".

According to Paldiel, when Boegner argued that the children would almost certainly die, Laval replied " not one child must remain in France ".

According to a June 2009 magazine interview with More. com conducted prior to announcement of the divorce, she replied " That's a big no comment " when asked to sum up her love life.

According to Plutarch, upon seeing the Spartans, one of Thebans allegedly told Pelopidas " We are fallen into our enemy's hands ;" to which Pelopidas replied, " And why not they into ours?

According to Veloso, the Soviet ambassador once asked the President for an audience to convey the USSR's concern about Mozambique's apparent " sliding away " towards the West, to which Machel supposedly replied " Vai à merda!

According to Michelle R. Smith of the Associated Press, when asked whether he felt that his loss may have helped the country by switching control of power in Congress, he replied: " To be honest, yes.

According to Jasper Ridley, when the Assembly convened for the first time: " When the name of Carlo Bonaparte, who was a member for Viterbo, was called, he replied to the roll-call by calling out Long live the Republic!

According to Murad, Yousef replied, " OK, we will think about it ", before heading off with Khalid Shaikh to Puerto Galera for scuba diving.

According to John Brophy, when a reporter asked Mahovlich what was wrong, he replied, “ I don ’ t know, but I seem to play a lot better with Howe and Delvecchio .”

According to Jasper Ridley: " When the name of Carlo Luciano Bonaparte, who was a member for Viterbo, was called, he replied to the roll-call by calling out Long live the Republic!

According to the story, Brown replied without missing a beat: