Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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Antalcidas, retorting to the Athenian who called the Spartans unlearned, said,
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At any rate, we alone have learned no evil from you Athenians.
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When another Athenian said to him,
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You cannot deny that we have many a time put you to rout from the Cephisus,
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he said,
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But we have never put you to rout from the Eurotas !
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When a lecturer was about to read a laudatory essay on Heracles, he said,
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Why, who says anything against him ?
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