Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

When it was the time of the Gymnopaidia,[*](A midsummer festival, celebrated at Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta by bands of naked boys and men.) Leotychides, now king in his place, saw him in the audience and, as a joke and an insult, sent a messenger to him to ask what it was like to hold office after being king.