13.1
Androcleidas the Spartan, who had a crippled leg, enrolled himself among the fighting-men. And when some persons were insistent that he be not accepted because he was crippled, he said, But I do not have to run away, but to stay where I am when I fight the opposing foe. Cf. the note on Moralia, 210 F (34), supra.
ANTALCIDAS See the note on Moralia, 192 B, supra.
14.1
When Antalcidas was being initiated into the mysteries at Samothrace, he was asked by the priest what especially dreadful thing he had done during his life, and he replied, If any such deed has been committed by me, the gods themselves will know it. The same sotry is told of Lysander in Moralia, 229 D (10), infra, and of an unknown Spartan in Moralia, 236 D (68), infra.
14.2
In answer to the Athenian who called the Spartans unlearned, he said, At any rate we are the only people who have learned no evil from you. Cf. the note on Moralia, 192 B (1), supra.
14.3
When another Athenian said to him, You must admit that we have many a time put you to rout from the Cephisus, he retorted, But we have never put you to rout from the Eur o t as. Cf. the note on Moralia, 192 C (2), supra.
14.4
Being asked how anybody could best make himself agreeable to people, he said, If his conversation with them is most pleasant and his suggestions most profitable. Cf. Moralia, 213 C (65), supra.
14.5
When a lecturer was about to read a laudatory essay on Heracles, he said, Why, who says anything against him? Cf. the note on Moralia, 192 C (3), supra.