The Histories · 7.231
When Aristodemos, I say, had returned home to Lacedemon, he had reproach and dishonour; and that which he suffered by way of dishonour was this,--no one of the Spartans would either give him light for a fire or speak with him, and he had reproach in that he was called Aristodemos the coward.Read in context ›
Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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