Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά

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44.1 Cleombrotus, the son of Pausanias, when a man from abroad was disputing with Cleombrotus’s father about excellence, said, My father is a better man than you — until you too have become a father. Cf. Moralia, 227 F (14), infra, and Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus, chap. xv. (48 C).

CLEOMENES, SON OF ANAXANDRIDAS King of Sparta, circa, 517-488 B.C.

45.1 Cleomenes, the son of Anaxandridas, said that Homer was the poet of the Spartans, and Hesiod of the Helots; for Homer had given the necessary directions for fighting, and Hesiod for farming. Cf. Aelian, Varia Historia, xiii. 19.

45.2 Having made an armistice of seven days with the Argives, he kept a watch on them, and on the third night, when they were sleeping because of their reliance on the truce, he attacked them, and slew some and took the others prisoners. Cf. Cicero, De officiis, i. 10 (33). Herodotus, vi. 78-79 (followed by other writers), relates that Cleomenes defeated the Argives by a different.

45.3 When he was reproached for his violation of his oath, he said that he had not included the nights as well as the days in his plighted word; and anyway, whatever ill one can do to one’s enemies is regarded, among both gods and men, as something vastly higher than justice. For the phrase Cf. Euripides, Electra, 584; and Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag., Euripides, no. 758.