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Another, Callicrates at the battle of Plataea (Herodotus, ix. 72). mortally wounded by an arrow, said, as his life was ebbing away, I am not troubled because I must die, but because my death comes at the hands of a womanish archer, and before I have accomplished anything. Repeated by Plutarch, Life of Aristeides, chap. xvii. (329 C).
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A man stopped at an inn and gave the innkeeper a piece of meat to prepare; and when the innkeeper asked for cheese and oil besides, the other said, If I had cheese, what need should I have of meat too? Repeated in Moralia, 995 B, where the meat is fish. Cf. also Aelian, Varia Historia, 787 A; Demosthenes, Or. xxiii. 211 (691).
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In answer to the man who called Lampis Lampis was famous for his ships and his wealth. Cf., for example, Moralia, 787 A; Demosthenes, Or. xxiii. 211 (691). of Aegina happy, because he seemed very rich in having many cargoes on the sea in ships, a Spartan said, I do not pay much attention to happiness that hangs by ropes! Cf. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, v. 14 (40).
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When somebody told a Spartan that he was lying, the Spartan replied, Yea, we are free men; but ithers, if they dinna teli the truth, will rue it. Cf. Moralia, 229 A (2).
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When someone set himself to make a corpse stand upright, and, for all his efforts, was unable to do this, he said, Egad, there is need of something inside.