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EURYCRATIDAS, SON OF ANAXANDRIDAS 1

Eurycratidas, the son of Anaxandridas, when someone inquired why the Ephors try cases involving contracts 2 each day, said, ‘So that also amid our enemies we may trust one another.’

1 Presumably Eurycratidas, son of Anaxander, mentioned by Herodotus, vii. 204, in the genealogy of Leonidas. He was king of Sparta in the first half of the sixth century B.C.

2 Cf. Aristotle, Politics, iii. 1, 10 (1275 b).

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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