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Plutarch, Sayings Of The Spartans, 3.2

ἄλλου δὲ εἰπόντος ὅτι μετὰ τῶν ἀκμαζόντων βασιλεύων ὡμήρευσε καὶ οὐχ οἱ παῖδες οὐδʼ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν, δικαίως εἶπεν αὐτοὺς γὰρ ἡμᾶς καλῶς ἔχον ἐστὶ τὰς αὑτῶν ἁμαρτίας φέρειν. When someone else remarked that he while king had been made hostage with those in the prime of life, and not their children or their women, he said, That is but just, for it is good that we ourselves should bear the consequences of our own mistakes.

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aristotle, on ethos (character)	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 133
plutarch, ethos (character), ideas of	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 133
plutarch, prohairesis (deliberate choice)'	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 134
plutarch	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 133, 134