Apophthegmata Laconica

When a Megarian in the common council used plain words to him, he said, My friend, your words need a city to back them. [*](Cf. the note on Moralia, 190 F (5), supra. )

When the Corinthians had revolted and he was going through their country along by the walls and saw that the Spartans were reluctant to attack, a hare was seen leaping across the ditch, whereupon he said, Are you not ashamed, men of Sparta, to be afraid of such enemies as these, who are so slack that hares sleep in the walls of their city? [*](Cf. the note on Moralia, 190 E (4), supra. )