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In a clinch one wrestler, who had the other by the neck, overpowered him with little effort, and pulled him to the ground. Since the one who was down was at a disadvantage in using his body, he bit the arm that held him. His opponent said, Spartan, you bite like a woman. No, indeed, said he, but like a lion. The same story is told of Alcibiades in Moralia, 186 D (1), and in Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades, chap. i. (192 C).
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A lame man was going forth to war, and some persons followed after him laughing. He turned around and said, You vile noddles! A man does not need to run away when he fights the enemy, but to stay where he is and hold his ground. Cf. Moralia, 210 F (34), and 217 C; Valerius Maximus, iii. 7, ext. 8.
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Another, Callicrates at the battle of Plataea (Herodotus, ix. 72). mortally wounded by an arrow, said, as his life was ebbing away, I am not troubled because I must die, but because my death comes at the hands of a womanish archer, and before I have accomplished anything. Repeated by Plutarch, Life of Aristeides, chap. xvii. (329 C).
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A man stopped at an inn and gave the innkeeper a piece of meat to prepare; and when the innkeeper asked for cheese and oil besides, the other said, If I had cheese, what need should I have of meat too? Repeated in Moralia, 995 B, where the meat is fish. Cf. also Aelian, Varia Historia, 787 A; Demosthenes, Or. xxiii. 211 (691).
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In answer to the man who called Lampis Lampis was famous for his ships and his wealth. Cf., for example, Moralia, 787 A; Demosthenes, Or. xxiii. 211 (691). of Aegina happy, because he seemed very rich in having many cargoes on the sea in ships, a Spartan said, I do not pay much attention to happiness that hangs by ropes! Cf. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, v. 14 (40).
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When somebody told a Spartan that he was lying, the Spartan replied, Yea, we are free men; but ithers, if they dinna teli the truth, will rue it. Cf. Moralia, 229 A (2).
