Instituta Laconia

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

They did not attend either comedy or tragedy, so that they might not hear anyone speak either in earnest or in jest against the laws.[*](Cf. Plato, Laws, 816 ff. where a different conception is expressed.)