Instituta Laconia

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

They made away with a man who wore the very coarsest clothing, because he inserted a border in his garment.

They reprimanded the young man from the gymnasium because he knew well about the road to Pylaea.[*](What is meant is uncertain; possibly (as suggested by the use of the word elsewhere) a place where men met for gossip and loose talk.)

Cephisophon, who asserted that he could speak the whole day long on any topic whatsoever, they expelled from the country, saying that the good orator must keep his discourse equal to the subject in hand.[*](Cf.Moralia, 208 c (3), supra.)