Sunday, March 12, 2023
Easier to Tear Down Than to Build
Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans 3 = Moralia 208 C (tr. Frank Cole Babbitt):
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Agesipolis, son of Cleombrotus, when somebody said that Philip in a few days had razed Olynthus to the ground, said, ‘By Heaven, he will not build another like it in many years!’
Ἀγησίπολις ὁ Κλεομβρότου, εἰπόντος τινὸς ὅτι Φίλιππος ἐν ὀλίγαις ἡμέραις Ὄλυνθον κατέσκαψε, ‘μὰ τοὺς θεούς,’ εἶπεν, ‘ἄλλην τοιαύτην ἐν πολλαπλασίονι χρόνῳ οὐκ οἰκοδομήσει.’
