Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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Original / primary: Perseus Eng3
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The Younger Agis, referring to the assertion of Demades that jugglers use the Spartan swords for
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swallowing because of their small size, said,
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But it is a fact that the Spartans, above all men, reach their enemies with their swords.
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When the Ephors ordered him to turn over soldiers to a traitor to lead, he said that he did not entrust another’s men to the man that betrayed his own.
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