Apophthegmata Laconica

When it came to pass that he fell in trying to win independence for the Greeks who were living in the region of Thrace, the committee which was sent to Sparta waited upon his mother Argileonis. Her first question was whether Brasidas had come to his end honourably; and when the Thracians spoke of him in the highest terms, and said that there was no other like him, she said, You have no knowledge of that, sirs, being from abroad; for Brasidas was

indeed a good man, but Sparta has many better than he was. [*](See the note on Moralia, 190 B (3), supra. )