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.

ἀκούσασά τις τὸν υἱὸν σεσῳσμένον καὶ πεφευγότα ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων, γράφει αὐτῷ, κακὰ φάμα τευ κακκέχυται· ἢ ταύταν νῦν[*](νυν Hatzidakis: νῦν.) ἔκνιψαι ἢ μὴ ἔσο.