Note 166 — Chapter XXI · THE ANTHOLOGY.
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To those of Lacedæmon, stranger, tell, That, as their laws commanded, here we fell.
John Sterling.
There is no very good translation of this couplet. The difficulty lies in the word ῥήμασι. Is this equivalent to ῥήτραις, as Cicero, who renders it by legibus, seems to think? Or is it the same as orders?