The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

110

Antipater having defeated King Agis, demanded fifty Lacedemonian Boys, as Hostages to secure his Conquest. Etheocles, who then was Ephorus, answered: That he would give him no Boys, lest being no more under the Spartan Discipline, they should contract vicious Inclinations; but that they were ready to give him double that number of old Men and Women.

110

Antipater, aprés avoir vaincu le Roy Agis, demanda pour seureté de sa conquête cinquante Enfans Lacedemoniens en ôtage. Etheocles, qui alors ètoit Ephore, rêpondit, Qu’il ne lui donneroit point d’Enfans, de crainte que n’etant plus soûmis à la Discipline de Sparte, ils ne contractassent de vicieuses Inclinations: Mais qu’ils ètoient prêts de leur donner le double de Vieillards, & de Femmes.