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When it came to pass that he fell while trying [p. 125] to win independence for the Greeks who were living within the borders of Thrace, and the envoys sent to Sparta approached his mother,1 her first question was whether Brasidas had died honourably. And when the Thracians spoke of him in the highest terms, and said that there would never be another like him, she said, ‘Ye ken naught aboot it, being from abraid; for Brasidas was e'en a guid mon, but Sparta has mony a better mon than him.'’ 2
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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