Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

πυνθανομένου δέ τινος αὐτοῦ διὰ τί Σπαρτιᾶται τοῖς θεοῖς οὐκ ἀνατιθέασι τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων σκῦλα, ὅτι, ἔφη, ἀπὸ δειλῶν ἐστι. [*](Most mss. add also τὰ γοῦν ἀπὸ τῶν κεκτημένων διὰ δειλίαν, κτλ. ... θεοῖς ἀνατιθέναι, as in 224 f (4) infra.)