Androcleidas the Spartan, who had a crippled leg, enrolled himself among the fighting-men. And when some persons were insistent that he be not accepted because he was crippled, he said, But I do not have to run away, but to stay where I am when I fight the opposing foe. Cf. the note on , 210 F (34), supra.

When Antalcidas was being initiated into the mysteries at Samothrace, he was asked by the priest what especially dreadful thing he had done during his life, and he replied, If any such deed has been committed by me, the gods themselves will know it. The same sotry is told of Lysander in , 229 D (10), infra, and of an unknown Spartan in , 236 D (68), infra.

In answer to the Athenian who called the Spartans unlearned, he said, At any rate we are the only people who have learned no evil from you. Cf. the note on , 192 B (1), supra.