Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

The younger Agis, when Demades said that the jugglers who swallow swords use the Spartan swords because of their shortness, retorted, But all the same the Spartans reach their enemies with their swords. [*](Cf. the note on 191 E (1).)

In answer to a base man who asked repeatedly who was the best Spartan, he said, The one most unlike you. [*](Cf. the note on 190 D (4).)