Capítulo 65
[65.1] When Paedaretus was not chosen to be one of the three hundred, Cf. Herodotus, vii. 205, and viii. 124; Thucydides, v. 72; Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta, 4.3. 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. Cf. Moralia, 231 B, and Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxv. (55 C).