Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

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

ἑτέρου δὲ ἐπιζητοῦντος διὰ τί παρὰ Μεσσηνίων δῶρα οὐκ ἐδέξατο, ὅτι λαβόντος μου, ἔφη, πρὸς τοὺς νόμους εἰρήνην ἄγειν ἀδύνατον.