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ἐπεμέλοντο δὲ οἱ Σπαρτιᾶται καὶ τῆς κόμης, ἀπομνημονεύοντές τινα Λυκούργου λόγον περὶ [p. 370] τούτου, ὅτι τοὺς μὲν καλοὺς εὐπρεπεστέρους; ποιεῖ, τοὺς δὲ αἰσχροὺς φοβερωτέρους.
παρήγγειλε δὲ ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις τρεψαμένους καὶ νικήσαντας μέχρι τοῦ βεβαιώσασθαι τὸ νίκημα ἐπιδιώκειν, εἶτα εὐθὺς ἀναχωρεῖν: οὔτε γενναῖον1 οὔτε Ἑλληνικὸν φονεύειν τοὺς παρακεχωρηκότας φάσκων εἶναι2 δ᾽ οὐ μόνον καλὸν τοῦτο καὶ μεγαλόψυχον3 ἀλλὰ καὶ χρήσιμον: εἰδότας γὰρ τοὺς μαχομένους πρὸς αὑτοὺς ὅτι φείδονται μὲν τῶν ἐνδιδόντων, ἀναιροῦσι δὲ τοὺς ὑφισταμένους, τοῦ μένειν τὸ φεύγειν ὠφελιμώτερον ἡγήσεσθαι.4
πυνθανομένου δέ τινος, διὰ τί τοὺς τῶν πολεμίων νεκροὺς ἀπηγόρευσε σκυλεύειν, ‘ὅπως,’
1 οὔτε γενναῖον supplied by the editors from the Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxii.
2 εἶναι F.C.B. to fit the construction: ἦν Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxii., from which the sentence εἶναι δ᾽ ... μεγαλόψυχον is added here by most editors. But the whole paragraph looks like a memorandum.
3 εἶναι F.C.B. to fit the construction: ἦν Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxii., from which the sentence εἶναι δ᾽ ... μεγαλόψυχον is added here by most editors. But the whole paragraph looks like a memorandum.
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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