Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

Agesipolis, the son of Pausanias, when the Athenians

offered to accept the city of Megara as arbitrator regarding some complaints which they had each against the other, said, It is a shame, men of Athens, that those who have held the hegemony of the Greeks should know less about justice than the Megarians.