Note 013 Plutarch (in Pyrrhus) gives the genuine answer in the Laconic dialect. Pyrrhus attacked Sparta with 25,000 foot, 2000 horse, and 24 elephants: and the defence of that open town is a fine comment on the laws of Lycurgus, even in the last stage of decay.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 30