Ἀργιλεωνίδος

[1] Ἀργιλεωνὶς ἡ Βρασίδου μήτηρ, τελευτήσαντος αὐτῇ τοῦ υἱοῦ, ὡς παραγενόμενοί τινες τῶν Ἀμφιπολιτῶν εἰς Σπάρτην ἧκον πρὸς αὐτήν, ἠρώτησεν εἰ καλῶς καὶ ἀξίως τῆς Σπάρτης ὁ υἱὸς ἐτελεύτα· 5 μεγαλυνόντων δʼ ἐκείνων ¹ καὶ λεγόντων ἄριστον ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις ἔργοις ἁπάντων Λακεδαιμονίων εἶναι, εἶπεν ὦ ξένοι, καλὸς μὲν ἦν κἀγαθὸς ὁ παῖς μου, 240d πολλοὺς δʼ ἄνδρας Λακεδαίμων ἔχει τήνου κάρρονας.

Lacaenarum Apophthegmata. Plutarch. ed. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. 1889.

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Λακαινῶν ἀποφθάγματα (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol IΙ. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.)

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

Ἀργιλεωνίδος¹

[1] 240c Ἀργιλεωνὶς ἡ Βρασίδου μήτηρ, τελευτήσαντος αὐτῇ τοῦ υἱοῦ, ὡς παραγενόμενοί τινες τῶν Ἀμφιπολιτῶν εἰς Σπάρτην ἧκον πρὸς αὐτὴν ἠρώτησεν εἰ καλῶς καὶ ἀξίως τῆς Σπάρτης ὁ υἱὸς ἐτελεύτα· μεγαλυνόντων δʼ ἐκεῖνον καὶ λεγόντων ἄριστον ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις ἔργοις ἁπάντων Λακεδαιμονίων εἶναι, εἶπεν, ὦ ξένοι, καλὸς μὲν ἦν κἀγαθὸς ὁ παῖς μου, πολλοὺς δʼ ἄνδρας Λακεδαίμων ἔχει 240d τήνω κάρρονας.

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

ARGILEONIS

[1] Argileonis, the mother of Brasidas, when her son had met his death,¹ and some of the citizens of Amphipolis arrived at Sparta and came to her, asked if her son had met his death honourably and in a manner worthy of Sparta. And when th ey proceeded to tell of his greatness, and declared that he was the best of all the Spartans in such enterprises, she said, Sirs, my son was a gude and honourable mon, but Sparta has mony a mon better than him.²

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Λακαινῶν ἀποφθέγματα

1. ἐκείνων *: ἐκεῖνον cf. p. 219d

Plutarch Lacaenarum Apophthegmata 1

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