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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Agesilaus

Conspirators and traitors are like moths, which eat the cloth in which they are bred; like vipers, that gnaw the bowels where they are born; like worms, which consume the wood in which they were engendered.