Apophthegmata Laconica

When others censured him for his violation of his oaths which he had made in Miletus he said that one must trick children with knuckle-bones, but men with oaths, [*](Repeated in Moralia, 330 F, where it is attributed to Dionysius; Moralia, 741 C; Diodorus, x. 9. 1; Dio Chysostom, Oration, lxxiv. (399 R., 640 M.); Polyaenus, Strategemata, i. 45. 3; and Aelian, Varia Historia, vii. 12, who says that some attribute it to Lysander, and others to Philip of Macedon.)

He conquered the Athenians by a ruse at Aegospotami, and by pressing them hard through famine he forced them to surrender their city, whereupon he wrote to the Ephors, Athens is taken. [*](According to Plutarch, Life of Lysander, chap. xiv. (441 B), the Ephors objected to the verbosity of the dispatch!)