Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 5)

Chapter 53: Of Agis the Younger.

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Of Agis the Younger.

Agis the Younger, when Demades said, The Spartans’ swords are so short that our jugglers can easily swallow them, replied, Yet the Spartans can reach their enemies with these swords. A base fellow often asking who was the bravest of the Spartans, he said, He that is most unlike thee.