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Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 5)

Note 50 — THE ACCOUNT OF THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE LACEDAEMONIANS.46

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Ἀσπίδι μὲν Σαΐων τις ἀγάλλεται, ἣν παρὰ θάμνῳ Ἔντος ἀμώμητον κάλλιπον οὐκ ἐθέλων· [Αὐτὸς δ’ ἐξέφυγον Θανάτου τέλος·] ἀσπὶς ἐκείνη Ἐῤῥέτω· ἐξαῦτις κτήσομαι οὐ κακίω.

Archilochus, Fr. 6 (Bergk). The passage in brackets is omitted by Plutarch. (G.)

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