Lacaenarum Apophthegmata

Plutarch

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

ἄλλη ἀκούσασα τὸν υἱὸν ἐν παρατάξει πεσόντα ἔφη,

  1. δειλοὶ κλαιέσθωσαν ἐγὼ δέ σε, τέκνον, ἄδακρυς
  2. θάπτω[*](θάπτω S. A. Naber and Hartman: καὶ ἱλαρὰ θάπτω. Pantazides would omit καὶ ἐμὸν καὶ to accomplish the same result, but cf. 235 a.) τὸν καὶ ἐμὸν καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιον.