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Ἱππόδαμος, ὅτε Ἆγις Ἀρχιδάμῳ παρετάττετο, συμπεμφθεὶς1 τῷ Ἄγιδι εἰς Σπάρτην ἐκεῖ τὰς χρείας παρέχεσθαι, ‘ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος,’ ἔφη, ‘οὔτοι καλλίω2 θάνατον ἀποθανοῦμαι ἢ3 ὑπὲρ Σπάρτας ἀνδραγαθῶν :’ ἦν δὲ βεβιωκὼς ὑπὲρ τὰ ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη: καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα λαβὼν τὰ ὅπλα καὶ στὰς ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ βασιλέως, μαχόμενος ἀποθνῄσκει.

Ἱπποκρατίδου

Ἱπποκρατίδας πρὸς τὸν τῆς Καρίας σατράπην ἐπιστείλαντα δἰ ὅ τι Λακεδαιμόνιος ἀνὴρ [p. 330] ἐπίβουλευόντων

1 Ἀρχιδάμῳ ... συμπεμφθεὶς] Ἀντιπάτρῳ ... πεμφθεὶς Wyttenbach.

2 καλλίω Wyttenbach (καλλίονα van Herwerden): κάλλιον.

3 ἢ added by F.C.B.

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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