Lacaenarum Apophthegmata

Plutarch

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

Damatria heard that her son had been a coward and unworthy of her, and when he arrived, she made away with him. This is the epigram[*](Cf. the Palatine Anthology, vii. no. 433, or W. R. Paton, The Greek Anthology (in L.C.L.), ii. p. 238.) referring to her:

Sinner against our laws, Damatrius, slain by his mother, Was of the Spartan youth; she was of Sparta too.