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Μεγαβάτου δὲ τοῦ Σπιθριδάτου παιδός, ὃς ἦν κάλλιστος τὴν μορφήν, προσελθόντος αὐτῷ ὡς ἀσπασομένου καὶ φιλήσοντος διὰ τὸ σφόδρα δοκεῖν ἀγαπᾶσθαι, ἐξέκλινεν ὡς δ᾽ ἐπαύσατο ἐκεῖνος προσιών, ἐπεζήτησεν αὐτὸν ὁ Ἀγησίλαος: τῶν δὲ φίλων φαμένων ὡς αὐτὸς εἴη αἴτιος τρέσας τὸ τοῦ καλοῦ ἐντὸς1 φιλήματος ἐλθεῖν, κἂν2 μὴ ἀποδειλιᾷ,3 ἥξειν ἐκεῖνον, χρόνον οὐκ ὀλίγον πρὸς αὑτῷ γενόμενος ὁ Ἀγησίλαος καὶ διασιωπήσας ‘οὐδέν,’ ἔφη, ‘δεῖ4 πείθειν ἐκεῖνον ἡμᾶς5: ἐγὼ γάρ μοι δοκῶ τῶν τοιούτων βούλεσθαι ἐπάνω εἶναι, ἢ τὴν εὐανδροτάτην τῶν ἀντιτεταγμένων πόλιν κατὰ κράτος ἑλεῖν ἄμεινον γὰρ ἑαυτῷ φυλάττειν τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τοῦ ἑτέρων ἀφαιρεῖσθαι.’
3 ἀποδειλιᾷ F.C.B.: ἀπὸ δειλίας (φίλημα, εἰ ἐθέλει καὶ μὴ ἀποδειλιάσει Kronenberg).
4 δεῖ Wyttenbach (δεινὸν Kronenberg): δεῖν.
5 ἡμᾶς] ὑμᾶς Kronenberg from the Life of Agesilaus, chap. xi. There are more elaborate attempts to improve the passage (dependent mostly on the Life of Agesilaus, ibid.); cf. the editions of Wyttenbach and Bernardakis.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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