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When a man from Argos said that the Spartans became more unscrupulous on going abroad and being out of the control of their long-established laws, 1 he said, ‘ But you, when you come to Sparta, do not become worse, but better.’
1 ‘Lions at home, but foxes abroad’ was proverbial. Cf. Plutarch's Comparison of Lysander and Sulla, chap. iii. (476 E).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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