Apophthegmata Laconica

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.)

When the exiles were inciting him to lead his army against the Athenians, and saying that, when his name was proclaimed at Olympia, they were the only people who hissed him, he said, What do you think that those who hissed when they were being well treated will do if they are treated ill ? [*](A similar remark is attributed to Philip of Macedon in Moralia, 143 F, 179 A, and 457 F.)