Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes, ed. Bernadotte Perrin, Cleomenes.31.4

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[4] οὐχ ἕως ἔτι τῶν ἰδίων ξιφῶν ἄρχομεν καὶ τὴν Λακωνικὴν ἀφορῶμεν, ἐνταῦθα τῆς τύχης ἀπαλλάξαντες ἑαυτοὺς ἀπολογησόμεθα τοῖς ἐν Σελασίᾳ κειμένοις ὑπὲρ τῆς Σπάρτης, ἀλλʼ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καθεδούμεθα πυνθανόμενοι τίνα τῆς Λακεδαίμονος σατράπην Ἀντίγονος ἀπολέλοιπε;
τοιαῦτα τοῦ Θηρυκίωνος εἰπόντος ὁ Κλεομένης ἀπεκρίνατο, τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων τὸ ῥᾷστον, ὦ πόνηρε, καὶ πᾶσιν ἐν ἑτοίμῳ διώκων, ἀποθανεῖν, ἀνδρεῖος εἶναι δοκεῖς, φεύγων αἰσχίονα φυγὴν τῆς πρότερον;

Agis and Cleomenes. Plutarch. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. 1921.

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

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Agis and Cleomenes Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. X. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921.) — Cleomenes.31.4 focus

[4] Let us rather, while we are still masters of our own swords and can gaze upon the land of Laconia, here rid ourselves of Fortune’s yoke, and make our peace with those who at Sellasia died in defence of Sparta, instead of sitting idly down in Egypt and asking every now and then whom Antigonus has left as satrap of Lacedaemon.
Such were the words of Therycion, and to them Cleomenes replied: It is the easiest possible step thou urgest, wretched man, and one that any man may take, this dying; and dost thou think thyself brave when thou art making a flight more shameful than the one preceding it?

Plutarch Agis and Cleomenes Cleomenes.31.4

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