Apophthegmata Laconica

Panthoedas went on embassy to Asia and when they pointed out to him a very strong wall he said, By Heaven, strangers, fine quarters for women! [*](Cf. the note on Moralia, 190 A, supra. )

When the philosophers in the Academy were conversing long and seriously, and afterwards some people asked Panthoidas how their conversation impressed him, he said, What else than serious? But there is no good in it unless you put it to use. [*](Cf.Moralia, 192 B, 220 D, and 1033 B-E.)

Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, at the time when the people of Delos were asserting their rightful claims to the island against the Athenians, and said that according to the law [*](The law seems to have been put into effect (426-425 B.C.) some years after the death of this Pausanias (468 B.C.).) which prevailed among them there were no births and no burials in the island, said, How can this be your native land in which no one of you has ever been born nor shall ever be hereafter? [*](Cf. Thucydides, iii. 104.)