Φοίβου ἀκούσαντες Πυθωνόθεν οἴκαδ᾽ ἔνεικαν
μαντείας τε θεοῦ καὶ τελέεντ᾽ ἔπεα:
ἄρχειν μὲν βουλῆς θεοτιμήτους βασιλῆας,
οἷσι μέλει Σπάρτας ἱμερόεσσα πόλις,
πρεσβύτας τε γέροντας, ἔπειτα δὲ δημότας
ἄνδρας,
εὐθείαις ῥήτραις ἀνταπαμειβομένους.
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1 Συλλανίου, Συλλανίας Bekker adopts the corrections of Bryan to Ἑλλανίου and Ἑλλανίας.
2 Συλλανίου, Συλλανίας Bekker adopts the corrections of Bryan to Ἑλλανίου and Ἑλλανίας.
3 Χείμαρρος this, or some other later name, is thought to have fallen from the text by Sintenis2, after E. Curtius, Peloponnesus, ii. p. 315; Coraës and Bekker have τὴν δὲ Βαβύκαν καὶ τὸν Κνακιῶνα, with the MSS.
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