Antiochus, when he was an ephor, heard that Philip had given to the Messenians their land, whereupon he asked whether Philip had also given them the power to prevail in fighting to keep it. Repeated Ibid., 217 F.

Antalcidas, retorting to the Athenian who called the Spartans unlearned, said, At any rate, we alone have learned no evil from you Athenians. Cf. , 217 D. The saying is attributed to Pleistoanax in , 231 D, and in Plutarch’s , chap. xx. (52 D).