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69.63 Bulis and Sperchis of Sparta went as volunteers to Xerxes king of the Persians, to render satisfaction which Sparta owed according to an oracle, because the people had killed the heralds sent to them by the Persian. These men came before Xerxes and bade him make away with them in any manner he desired, as representing the Spartans. But when he, filled with admiration, let them go free, and was insistent that they remain with him, they said, And how should we be able to live here, abandoning our country and laws and those men in whose behalf we made such a long journey to die? And when Indarnes Hydarnes in Herodotus, vii. 135. the general besought them at greater length, and said that they would receive equal honour with the friends of the king who stood highest in advancement, they said, You seem to us not to know what is the meed of liberty, which no man of sense would exchange for the kingdom of the Persians. Cf. Moralia, 815 E; Dio Chrysostom, Or. lxxvi. ad fin.; Stobaeus, Florilegium, vii. 70, and xxix. 27 (quoting Serenus). The ultimate source is probably Herodotus, vii. 134-136.

69.64 Because a friend with whom a Spartan was intending to stay dodged him on the first day, and on the next day, having borrowed bedding, received him sumptuously, the Spartan jumped on the bedding and trod it under foot, remarking that it was because of this that yesterday he had not had even straw to sleep on.

69.65 Another, on going to Athens, saw that the Athenians were hawking salt fish and dainties, collecting taxes, keeping public brothels, and following other unseemly pursuits, and holding none of them to be shameful. When he returned to his own country, his fellow-citizens asked how things were in Athens, and he said, Everything fair and lovely, speaking sarcastically and conveying the idea that .among the Athenians everything is considered fair and lovely, and nothing shameful.

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