Thesauros Literature biography Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά

Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά

Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά Plutarch
2.69 After the peace was made, The peace of Antalcidas, 387 B.C. See Moralia, 213 A-B, supra. a letter from the king of Persia was brought to him, of which the Persian with Gallias the Spartan was the bearer, in regard to hospitality and friendship; but Agesilaus would not receive it, bidding the man to take back word to the king that there was no need to send letters to him personally; that if the king showed himself to be a friend to Sparta and well disposed towards Greece, he himself, to the very best of his power, would be a friend to the king. But if the king should be caught plotting against Greece, he went on to say, even if I receive many letters, let him not believe that he shall have me for a friend. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Agesilaus, chap.xxiii. (608 F); Xenophon, Agesilaus, 8. 3 (in almost the same words as here); Aelian, Varia Historia, x. 20.
2.70 He was unusually fond of children, and it is said that at home he used to mount astride a stick as a hobby-horse and play with his children when they were little. But when he was seen thus by one of his friends, he begged the man to tell nobody before he had children of his own. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Agesilaus, chap. xxv. 610 C): Aelian, Varia Historia, xii. 15. Diogenes Laertius and Valerius Maximus (viii. 8, ext. 1), tell this story of Socrates.

nav.navigate

nav.identity

common.settings

common.language
TR EN
common.theme