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When someone set himself to make a corpse stand upright, and, for all his efforts, was unable to do this, he said, Egad, there is need of something inside.
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Tynnichus, when his son Thrasybulus was slain, bore it sturdily; and this epigram Attributed to Dioscorides in the Palatine Anthology, vii. 229 (The Greek Anthology in the L.C.L., ii. p. 130). was written on him: Lifeless to Pitane came, on his shield upborne, Thrasybulus; Seven the wounds he received, pierced by the Argive spears; All in the front did he show them; and him with his blood-stained body Tynnichus placed on the pyre, saying these words in his eld: Let the poor cowards be mourned, but with never a tear shall I bury You, my son, who are mine, yea, and are Sparta’s as well.
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When the keeper of a bath was pouring in a great quantity of water for Alcibiades, a Spartan The Spartans were not enthusiastic bathers (Cf. Moralia 237 B). said, Why all this for him as if he were not clean? The fellow is pouring in extra water as if for a very dirty man.
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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. The story is told with slightly more detail in Moralia, 513 A.
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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. Cf. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, v. 14 (42).
