How shall we best guard against the invasion of an enemy ?" By continuing poor, and not desiring in your possessions to be one above another. And to the question, whether they should enclose Sparta with walls, That city is well fortified, which has a... Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne - Page 157by Plutarchus - 1809Full view - About this book
| Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 358 pages
...possessions to be one above another. And to the question, whether they should enclose Sparta with walls, That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick. Whether these and some other letters ascribed to him are genuine or not, is no easy matter to determine. However,... | |
| Plutarch - 1822 - 502 pages
...to be one above another." And to the question, whether they should inclose Spavtn with walls ? — " That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick." Whether these, and some other letters ascribed to him, are genuine or not, is no easy matter to determine. However,... | |
| Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 388 pages
...possessions to be one above another." And to the question, " Shall we enclose Sparta with walls ?" " That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick.5' Whether these however, and some other letters ascribed to him, be genuine or not, is a difficult... | |
| Maria Hack - Greece - 1824 - 412 pages
...never surrounded by walls. Their lawgiver, Lycurgus, judged such a precaution unnecessary; saying, " That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick*." The shattered walls remaining on these hills, are therefore probably the ruins of houses. Close to... | |
| Plutarch - 1834 - 544 pages
...to be one above another.” And to the question, whether they should inclose Sparta with walls?—. “That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick.” Whether these, and some other letters ascribed to him, are genuine or not, is no easy matter to determine. However,... | |
| Plutarch - 2009 - 354 pages
...to be one above another." And to the question, whether they should inclose Sparta with walls?— " That city is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick." Whether these, and some other letters ascribed to him, are genuine or not, is no easy matter to determine. However,... | |
| Plutarch - Greece - 1840 - 472 pages
...to be one above another." And to the question, whether they should inclose Sparta with walls? — " That city is well fortified, which has a. wall of men instead of brick. Whether these, and some other letters ascribed to him, are genuine or not, is no easy matter to determine. However,... | |
| William Hendry Stowell - Greece - 1848 - 400 pages
...your own family." — When it was asked whether they should inclose Sparta with walls, he replied, " That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick." — Charilaus, nephew of Lycurgus, being asked why his uncle had made so few laws, answered, " To men... | |
| John Langhorne, Plutarch - Greece - 1854 - 766 pages
...one above another. Aiui to the question, whether they should enclose Sparta with walls'? That cily , is well fortified, which has a wall of men instead of brick. Whether these and some other letters ascribed to him are genuine or not, is no easy mutter to determine. However,... | |
| E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...When a proposition was made to enclose Sparta with walls, Lycurgus opposed the project, and said, " That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick." The material would be destroyed, but the mental would last. Mere earthworks could offer but little... | |
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