Apophthegmata Laconica. Plutarch. Frank Cole Babbitt (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1931.
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Current edition Perseus
Sayings of Spartans (English) (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).)
Editions (2)
Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).) — 13 focus
Ανδροκλειδου
[1] Ἀνδροκλείδας ὁ Λάκων πηρωθεὶς τὸ σκέλος κατέταξεν αὑτὸν εἰς τοὺς πολεμιστάς· ὡς δʼ ἐνίσταντό
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τινες διακωλύοντες ὅτι ἐπεπήρωτο,
ἀλλʼ οὐ φεύγοντα, εἶπε,
μένοντα δὲ δεῖ τοῖς ἀντιτεταγμένοις μάχεσθαι.ʼ ʼ
Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol II. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.) — 13 focus
Ἀνδροκλείδου
[1] Ἀνδροκλείδας ὁ Λάκων πηρωθεὶς τὸ σκέλος κατέταξεν αὑτὸν εἰς τοὺς πολεμιστάς· ὡς δʼ ἐνίσταντό
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τινες διακωλύοντες ὅτι ἐπεπήρωτο,
ἀλλʼ οὐ φεύγοντα εἶπε
μένοντα δὲ δεῖ τοῖς ἀντιτεταγμένοις μάχεσθαι.
Translations (1)
Laconic Apophthegms; or Remarkable Sayings of the Spartans. Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. I. Goodwin, William W., editor; unknown, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 13 focus
Of Androclidas.
Androclidas a Spartan, being maimed in his leg, enlisted in the army; and when some refused him because he was maimed, he said, It must not be those that can run away, hut those that can stand to it, that must fight the enemy.
Notes on the current edition
Sayings of Spartans
1.
Possibly the opponent of Lysander, mentioned in Plutarch’s
Life of Lysander, chap. viii. (437 C).
2.
Cf. the note on
Moralia, 210 F (34),
supra.