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When he was dying he gave orders that his friends have no plaster or paint used, for this was the way he spoke of statues and portraits. For, said he, if I have done any noble deed, that is my memorial; but if none, then not all the statues in the world avail. Cf. Moralia, 215 A, infra; Plutarch’s Life of Agesilaus, chap. ii. (59 F); Xenophon, Agesilaus, ii. 7; Dio Chrysostom, Oration, xxxv. (466 M., 127 R.); Cicero, Letters, v. 12. 7.
ARCHIDAMUS, SON OF AGESILAUS Archidamus III., king of Sparta, 261-228 B.C.
62.1
Archidamus, the son of Agesilaus, on seeing the missile shot by a catapult, which had been brought then for the first time from Sicily, cried out, Great Heavens ! Man’s valour is no more ! Cf. Moralia, 219 A, infra.
AGIS THE YOUNGER Agis III., king of Sparta, 338-331 B.C.
63.1
The Younger Agis, referring to the assertion of Demades that jugglers use the Spartan swords for swallowing because of their small size, said, But it is a fact that the Spartans, above all men, reach their enemies with their swords. Cf. Moralia, 216 C, infra, and Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus, chap. xix. (51 E).
63.2
When the Ephors ordered him to turn over soldiers to a traitor to lead, he said that he did not entrust another’s men to the man that betrayed his own. Attributed to Agis II. in Moralia, 215 C.
CLEOMENES Cleomenes II., king of Sparta, 370-309 B.C.