Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

When a lecturer was about to read a laudatory essay on Heracles, he said, Why, who says anything against him? [*](Cf. the note on Moralia, 192 C (3), supra. )

When Agesilaus was wounded in battle by the Thebans, Antalcidas said to his face, You have your just reward for the lessons in fighting you have given to that people who had no desire to fight and no knowledge even of fighting. For it appeared that they had been made warlike by the continual campaigns of Agesilaus against them. [*](Cf. the note on Moralia, 189 F (5), supra. )