Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

Τήλεκλος[*](Τήλεκλος Xylander: τήλεκρος.) πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα, ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ λέγει κακῶς αὐτόν, εἰ μὴ αὐτῷ, ἔφη, λεκτὸν[*](λεκτὸν] λεκτέον Bernardakis, but unnecessarily. See, for example, Jebb on Sophocles, O.C. 1360.) ἦν, οὐκ ἂν ἔλεγεν.