Apophthegmata Laconica
Plutarch
Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).
Being asked for what purpose they offered sacrifice to the Muses before hazardous ventures, he said, So that our deeds may find good words. [*](Cf.Moralia, 238 B, infra; Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxi. (53 D).)