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CLEOMENES 1


Somebody promised to give to Cleomenes cocks that would die fighting, but he retorted, ‘No, don't, but give me those that kill fighting.’ 2

1 Cleomenes II., king of Sparta, 370-309 B.C.

2 Cf. Moralia, 224 B, infra, and Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xx. (52 E).

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