Sayings of Spartans

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Everyone's familiar with quotes like "Then we will fight in the shade" that have been attributed to Spartans in movies and other stuff, but did they really have such a sharp tongue? According to Plutarch, yes, they definitely did.

Sayings of Spartans (Unknown):
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...*/unknown.html

Ex. "Someone on seeing a painting in which Spartans were depicted as slain by Athenians, kept repeating, "Brave, brave Athenians." A Spartan cut in with, "Yes, in the picture!""


Sayings of Spartans (attributed):
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...ans*/main.html

Ex. "When the physician said to him, "You have lived to be an old man," he said, "That is because I never employed you as my physician." (Pausanias, the son of Pleistoanax)


Sayings of Spartan women:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...an_women*.html

Ex. "In answer to her son who said that the sword which he carried was short, said, "Add a step to it."