Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes, Bernadotte Perrin (Translator), Cleomenes.4.3

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[3] Aratus burst out laughing at the jest, and inquired what manner of youth this was. Whereupon Damocrates, the Lacedaemonian exile, replied: If thou hast designs upon the Lacedaemonians, see that thou hastenest, before this young cock grows his spurs.
After this, when Cleomenes with a few horsemen and three hundred foot-soldiers was making an expedition in Arcadia, the ephors, fearing the issue of the war, ordered him to come back home.

Agis and Cleomenes. Plutarch. Bernadotte Perrin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1921.

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Agis and Cleomenes (English) (Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. X. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921.)

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Ἄγις καὶ Κλεομένης Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. X. Perrin, Bernadotte, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921.) — Cleomenes.4.3 focus

[3] τοῦ δὲ Ἀράτου πρὸς τὸ σκῶμμα γελάσαντος καὶ πυνθανομένου ποῖός τις ὁ νεανίσκος εἴη, Δαμοκράτης ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος φυγάς, εἴ τι πράττεις, ἔφη, πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους, ὥρα σοι ταχύνειν πρὸ τοῦ κέντρα φῦσαι τοῦτον τὸν νεοσσόν.
ἐκ τούτου Κλεομένει μετὰ ἱππέων ὀλίγων καὶ πεζῶν τριακοσίων ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ στρατοπεδευομένῳ προσέταξαν ἀναχωρεῖν οἱ ἔφοροι, φοβούμενοι τὸν πόλεμον.

Plutarch Agis and Cleomenes Cleomenes.4.3

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