Plutarch's Parallel Lives: Antigonus enters Sparta without resistance and restores its laws and institutions; Polybius: Antigonus takes Sparta and…
Antigonus enters Sparta without resistance and restores its laws and institutions
ὁ δὲ Ἀντίγονος ἐξ ἐφόδου παραλαβὼν τὴν πόλιν, καὶ χρησάμενος τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις φιλανθρώπως, καὶ τὸ ἀξίωμα τῆς Σπάρτης οὐ προπηλακίσας οὐδʼ ἐνυβρίσας, ἀλλὰ…
Location: Plut. Agis&Cleomenes 30
Antigonus takes Sparta and restores the old constitution, then returns on news of a Macedonian invasion
Ἀντίγονος δʼ ἐγκρατὴς γενόμενος ἐξ ἐφόδου τῆς Σπάρτης τά τε λοιπὰ μεγαλοψύχως καὶ φιλανθρώπως ἐχρήσατο τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις, τό τε πολίτευμα τὸ πάτριον αὐτοῖς…
Location: 2.70
Place: Sparta
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