Apophthegmata Laconica. Plutarch. ed. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. 1931.
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Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά (Greek) (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).)
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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).) — 29 focus
ECPREPES
[1] Ecprepes, an Ephor, cut out with an adze two of the nine strings of Phrynis the musician, saying,
Do not murder music.
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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.) — 29 focus
Of Emprepes.
Emprepes, one of the Ephors, cut out two of the nine strings of Phrynis the musician’s harp with a hatchet, saying, Do not abuse music.
Notes on the current edition
Ἀποφθέγματα Λακωνικά
1.
Εκπρεπους, Ἐκπρέπης Xylander and Wyttenbach:
Εμπρεπους, Ἐμπρεπὴς.
2.
χορδῶν added by Eusebius from the
Life of Agis, chap. x., and
Moralia 84 a.