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And some say that a citizen of Sybaris, who was staying at Sparta, and who dined at their Phiditia, said—It is natural enough for the Lacedæmonians to be the bravest of men; for any man in his senses would rather die ten thousand times over, than live in such a miserable way as this.
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And Polemo, in his treatise on the Wicker Carriage mentioned by Xenophon, says "that Cratinus in his Pluti, mentioning the feast which is called by the Lacedæmonians Copis, speaks as follows— Tell me, I pray you, is it true that all The strangers in that country, who arrive, May banquet at the Copis at their pleasure And at their parties do there hang around Cakes fix'd on pegs, that every one who will, Young men and old, may take a bite at them? And Eupolis says in his Helots— And let a Copis be this day prepared.
