Author of quotes: Agesilaus II
In the battle of Leuctra many Spartans ran from the battlefield and, according to the law, subject for this loss of civil honor (atiii). However, the ephors, seeing the city in the time of extreme need of soldiers will lose their men, did not know how to avoid atiii and to comply with the laws. Then the legislator has chosen to agesilaus. Arriving at the square of national Assembly, he said, "I would never have agreed to become a legislator to introduce new laws; and in the present I'm not going to make any cuts or modifications. Our current laws are good and should be maintained in full force... starting tomorrow".
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 21:10
When a doctor prescribed him [Agesilaus] a carefully designed course of treatment, to perform which was very difficult, the king exclaimed: "I Swear to the gods, nowhere does it say that I certainly need to live and all go for it."
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 21:09
Having at Olympia the desired Oracle from Zeus, he [Agesilaus] by order of the ephors was to apply the same question to the Pythian Oracle; and he sent to Delphi to ask this: "does Phoebus [i.e. Apollo] the words of his father?"
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 21:09
Courage has no value if it is not combined justice; but if all were fair, there would be no need of valor.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 21:08
The inhabitants of Asia Minor - no good free citizens, but as slaves they are excellent.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 21:08
