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When Paedaretus was not chosen to be one of the three hundred, 1 an honour which ranked highest in the State, he departed, cheerful and smiling, with the remark that he was glad if the State possessed three hundred citizens better than himself. 2

1 Cf. Herodotus, vii. 205, and viii. 124; Thucydides, v. 72; Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta, 4.3.

2 Cf. Moralia, 231 B, and Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxv. (55 C).

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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