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).) — 33 focus
Ευρυκρατιδου τοῦ Ἀναξανδριδου
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221b
Εὐρυκρατίδας ὁ Ἀναξανδρίδου, πυθομένου τινὸς διὰ τί τὰ περὶ
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τῶν συμβολαίων δίκαια ἑκάστης ἡμέρας κρίνουσιν οἱ ἔφοροι,
ὅπως, ἔφη,
καὶ ἐν τοῖς πολεμίοις πιστεύωμεν ἀλλήλοις.
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.) — 33 focus
Of Eurycratidas the Son of Anaxandridas.
Eurycratidas the son of Anaxandridas, when one asked him why the Ephor sat every day to determine causes about contracts, replied, That we may learn to keep our word even with our enemies.
Notes on the current edition
Sayings of Spartans
1.
Presumably Eurycratidas, son of Anaxander, mentioned by Herodotus, vii. 204, in the genealogy of Leonidas. He was king of Sparta in the first half of the sixth century B.C.
2.
Cf. Aristotle,
Politics, iii. 1, 10 (1275 b).