{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg044.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg044.local001","title":"Ἀγησίλαος","titleGreek":"Ἀγησίλαος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1917","volume":"5","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives05plut/page/2/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Ἀγησίλαος. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1917. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg044.local001","excerpt":"Ἀρχίδαμος ὁ Ζευξιδάμου βασιλεύσας ἐπιφανῶς Λακεδαιμονίων, κατέλιπεν υἱὸν ἐκ γυναικὸς εὐδοκίμου, Λαμπιδοῦς, Ἆγιν, καί πολὺ νεώτερον ἐξ Εὐπωλίας τῆς Μελησιππίδα θυγατρός, Ἀγησίλαον. ἐπεὶ δὲ τῆς βασιλείας Ἄγιδι προσηκούσης κατὰ τὸν νόμον ἰδιώτης ἐδόκει βιοτεύσειν ὁ Ἀγησίλαος, ἤχθη τὴν λεγομένην ἀγωγὴν ἐν Λακεδαίμονι, σκληρὰν μὲν οὖσαν τῇ διαίτῃ καί πολύπονον, παιδεύουσαν δὲ τοὺς νέους ἄρχεσθαι. διὸ καί φασιν ὑπὸ τοῦ Σιμωνίδου τὴν Σπάρτην προσηγορεῦσθαι δαμασίμβροτον, ὡς μάλιστα διὰ τῶν ἐθῶν τοὺς πολίτας τοῖς νόμοις πειθηνίους καὶ χειροήθεις ποιοῦσαν, ὥσπερ ἵππους εὐθὺς ἐξ ἀρχῆς δαμαζομένους, ταύτης ἀφίησιν ὁ νόμος τῆς ἀνάγκης τοὺς ἐπὶ βασιλείᾳ τρεφομένους παῖδας. Ἀγησιλάῳ δὲ καί τοῦτο ὑπῆρξεν ἴδιον, ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ ἄρχειν μὴ ἀπαίδευτον τοῦ ἄρχεσθαι. τοῦ ἄρχεσθαι with Ma and Cobet: ἄρχεσθαι. διὸ καί πολὺ τῶν βασιλέων εὐαρμοστότατον αὑτὸν τοῖς ὑπηκόοις παρέσχε, τῷ φύσει ἡγεμονικῷ καί βασιλικῷ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 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23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-30"},{"label":"Chapter 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-31"},{"label":"Chapter 32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-32"},{"label":"Chapter 33","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-33"},{"label":"Chapter 34","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-34"},{"label":"Chapter 35","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-35"},{"label":"Chapter 36","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-36"},{"label":"Chapter 37","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-37"},{"label":"Chapter 38","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg044.local001/#tlg0007-tlg044-local001-38"},{"label":"Chapter 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