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[216] Moreover, the coward and the man who throws away his shield are in many places punished by law; and this is why the Laconian mother, when giving a shield to her son as he set out for the war, said, ‟Either with this, my child, or upon it.” Yet Archilochus,
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as though vaunting to us of his flight after flinging away his shield, speaks thus of himself in his poems—
Over my shield some Saïan warrior gloats,—
The shield I left, though loth, beside the bush—
A flawless piece of armour; I myself
Fled and escaped from death which endeth all.
Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.
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