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When Philip of Macedon sent some orders to the Spartans by letter, they wrote in reply, ‘What you wrote about, ' No.'’ 1 When he invaded the Spartans' country, and all thought that they should be destroyed, he said to one of the Spartans, ‘What shall you do now, men of Sparta ?’ And the other said, ‘What else than die like men ? For we alone of all the Greeks have learned to be free, and not to be subject to others.’ 2
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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