Figs

I shanʹt buy my Attic figs in future, but grow them. Donʹt count your chickens before they are hatched. It was Xerxes who boasted that he did not intend any longer to buy his figs, because he meant to conquer Attʹica and add it to his own empire; but Xerxes met a signal defeat at Salʹamis, and “never loosed his sandal till he reached Abdeʹra.”