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Agasicles the Spartan king, when one wondered why, since he was a great lover of instruction, he would not admit Philophanes the Sophist, freely said, I ought to be their scholar whose son I am. And to one enquiring how a governor should be secure without guards, he replied, If he rules his subjects as fathers do their sons.

Apophthegmata Laconica. Plutarch. ed. William W. Goodwin. Boston. 1874.

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Laconic Apophthegms; or Remarkable Sayings of the Spartans. (English) (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.)

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Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).) — 1 focus

Ἀγασικλέους

208b

[1] Ἀγασικλῆς ὁ Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεύς, θαυμάζοντός τινος ὅτι φιλήκοος ὢν οὐ προσδέχεται Φιλοφάνη τὸν σοφιστήν, ἔφη, τούτων χρῄζω μαθητὴς εἶναι, ὧν εἶναι¹ καὶ υἱός.

[2] πρὸς δὲ τὸν εἰπόντα πῶς ἄν τις ἀδορυφόρητος ὢν ἄρχειν ἀσφαλῶς δύναιτο, ἐὰν οὕτως, ἔφη, αὐτῶν ἄρχῃ, ὥσπερ οἱ πατέρες τῶν υἱῶν.

Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol II. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.) — 1 focus

Ἀγασικλέους

[1] 208b Ἀγασικλῆς ὁ Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεύς, θαυμάζοντός τινος ὅτι φιλήκοος ὢν οὐ προσδέχεται Φιλοφάνη τὸν σοφιστήν, ἔφη τούτων χρῄζω μαθητὴς εἶναι, ὧν εἰμι καὶ υἱός.

[2] 5 πρὸς δὲ τὸν εἰπόντα, πῶς ἄν τις ἀδορυφόρητος ὢν ἄρχειν ἀσφαλῶς δύναιτο, ἐὰν οὕτως ἔφη αὐτῶν ἄρχῃ, ὥσπερ οἱ πατέρες τῶν υἱῶν.

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Sayings of Spartans Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).) — 1 focus

AGASICLES¹

[1] When someone expressed surprise to Agasicles, king of the Spartans, because, although he was very fond of reading and lectures, yet he would not admit to his presence Philophanes, a learned man, he said, I want to be a pupil of those whose son I should like to be as well.

[2] In answer to a man who raised the question how anyone could possibly rule in safety without the protection of a bodyguard, he said, If one rules his subjects as fathers rule their sons.²

Plutarch Apophthegmata Laconica 1

ed. William W. Goodwin

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