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πολλοὶ δ᾽ ἦσαν οὗτοι, καὶ συνέβαινε τῷ Ἀγησιλάῳ ταχὺ πολλοὺς καὶ πολεμικοὺς ἔχειν ἱππεῖς ἀντὶ δειλῶν ὁπλιτῶν, ἐμισθοῦντο γὰρ οἱ μὴ βουλόμενοι στρατεύεσθαι τοὺς βουλομένους
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στρατεύεσθαι, οἱ δὲ μὴ βουλόμενοι ἱππεύειν τοὺς
βουλόμενοι ἱππεύειν.1 καὶ γὰρ τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα
ποιῆσαι καλῶς ὅτι θήλειαν ἵππον ἀγαθὴν λαβὼν κακὸν ἄνδρα καὶ πλούσιον ἀπήλλαξε τῆς στρατείας.
1 ἐμισθοῦντο ... ἱππεύειν bracketed by Sintenis2 and Cobet. The sentence is wanting in Apophtheg. Lacon. 12 (Morals, p. 209 b).
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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