We forgot your beginning, so we missed your end.
The Spartans, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans, Anonymous 1 (232d)
We forgot your beginning, so we missed your end.
The Spartans, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans, Anonymous 1 (232d)
The source
"We forgot your beginning, so we missed your end." The Spartans said it in Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans, Anonymous 1 (232d). Translated from the original Greek by Spartan Surfers.
"τὰ μὲν πρῶτα ἐπιλελάθαμες, τὰ δὲ ὕστερα οὐ συνείκαμες διὰ τὸ τὰ πρῶτα ἐπιλελᾶσθαι."Original Greek, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans, Anonymous 1 (232d). Greek: Bernardakis 1889 (Teubner) via Perseus; Reply to long-winded envoys from Samos.
Who said it
The Spartans (8th–4th century BC). Laconic sayings from Lycurgus, Leonidas, Dienekes and the mothers of Sparta, recorded by Herodotus and Plutarch.
Questions
- Who said "We forgot your beginning, so we missed your end."?
- The Spartans (8th–4th century BC). Source: Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans, Anonymous 1 (232d).
- What is the original Greek?
- τὰ μὲν πρῶτα ἐπιλελάθαμες, τὰ δὲ ὕστερα οὐ συνείκαμες διὰ τὸ τὰ πρῶτα ἐπιλελᾶσθαι. Translated from the original Greek by Spartan Surfers.
Filed under Laconic.
Wear the Spartans
Blot out the sun? Good. We'll fight in the shade.
Dienekes, Herodotus, Histories 7.226
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With it or on it.
Spartan mother, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartan Women 241f
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Sword too short? Take one step closer.
Spartan mother, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartan Women, Anonymous 18 (241f)
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They're close? Then so are we.
Leonidas, Plutarch, Sayings of Spartans, Leonidas 7 (225b)
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