When someone desired to know why Spartans do battle amidst the sound of fifes, he said, ‘So that, as all keep step to the music, the cowardly and the brave may be plainly seen.’ 1
1 Cf. Thucydides, v. 70; Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta, 13. 8; Lucian, On Dancing, 10; Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, ii. 16 (37); Valerius Maximus, ii. 6. 2.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
