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Ἀργείου ποτὲ εἰπόντος ‘πολλοὶ τάφοι παρ᾽ ἡμῖν εἰσὶ Σπαρτιατῶν’ Λάκων εἶπεν ‘ἀλλὰ μὴν παρ᾽ ἡμῖν Ἀργείων οὐδὲ εἷς,’ ὡς: αὐτῶν μὲν πολλάκις Ἄργους ἐπιβεβηκότων Ἀργείων δὲ τῆς Σπάρτης οὐδέποτε.
Λάκων αἰχμαλωτισθεὶς καὶ πιπρασκόμενος, τοῦ κήρυκος λέγοντος ‘Λάκωνα πωλῶ,’ ἐπεστόμισεν εἰπών ‘αἰχμάλωτον κήρυσσε.’
τῶν παρὰ Λυσιμάχῳ στρατευομένων ἐρωτηθεὶς τις ὑπ᾽;᾽ αὐτοῦ, μή τις τῶν εἱλώτων ἐστί, ‘σὺ δ᾽ οἴει’ ἔφη ‘ἐπὶ τὸ παρὰ σοῦ τετρώβολον Λάκωνα ἥξειν;᾽’
ὅτε Θηβαῖοι νικήσαντες τοὺς Λάκωνας ἐν Λεύκτροις πρὸς αὐτὸν παρῆσαν τὸν Εὐρώταν, καί τις μεγαλαυχῶν εἶπε ‘ποῦ νῦν εἰσὶν οἱ Λάκωνες;᾽’ Σπαρτιάτης ληφθεὶς ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν ‘οὐ πάρεισιν’ ἔφη: ‘οὐ γὰρ ἂν ὑμεῖς δεῦρο ἤλθετε. ’
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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