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ἀναγινώσκοντος τῶν πεσόντων ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων, ‘ποδαποὺς οὖν,’ ἔφη, ‘τοὺς ἡμετέρους νομίζεις εἶναι νικήσαντας τούτους;’ν

Ἀρχιδαμίδου

Ἀρχιδαμίδας πρὸς τὸν ἐπαινοῦντα Χάριλλον,1 ὅτι πρὸς ἅπαντας ὁμοίως πρᾶος ἦν, ‘καὶ πῶς τις,’ ἔφη, ‘δικαίως ἂν ἐπαινοῖτο, εἰ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς πονηροὺς πρᾶος εἴη;’ν

μεμφομένου δέ τινος Ἑκαταῖον τὸν σοφιστήν, ὅτι παραληφθεὶς εἰς τὸ συσσίτιον αὐτῶν οὐδὲν ἔλεγεν, ‘ἀγνοεῖν μοι δοκεῖς,’ εἶπεν, ‘ὅτι ὁ εἰδὼς λόγον καὶ τὸν τοῦ λέγειν καιρὸν οἶδεν.’

1 Χάριλλος is the usual spelling in Plutarch. The mss. of other writers also show both forms: Χαρίλαν.

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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