Apophthegmata Laconica

When some commended the people of Elis because they were very just in conducting the Olympic games, he said, What great or marvellous accomplishment is it if they practise justice on one day only in four years? [*](Cf. the note on 190 C (3), supra. )

In answer to those who said that some members of the other royal house [*](The Spartans had wo kings and consequently two royal families.) were jealous of him he said, So then, their own ill fortune will make them miserable and, besides that, the good fortune of myself and of my friends.

When someone proffered the advice that they ought to give a passage-way to those of the enemy who were fleeing, [*](This was a part of the tactics of Agesilaus according to Polyaenus, Strategemata, ii. 1. 4. Cf. Xenophon, Hellenica, iv. 2. 22 and iv. 3. 19.) he said, And how, if we do not