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Idem sensit proxima maiorum nostorum grauitati Spartana ciuitas, quae seuerissimis Lycurgi legibus obtemperans aliquamdiu ciuium suorum oculos a contemplanda Asia retraxit, ne inlecebris eius capti ad delicatius uitae genus prolaberentur: audierant enim inde lautitiam et inmodicos sumptus et omnia non necessariae uoluptatis genera fluxisse, primosque Ionas unguenti coronarumque in conuiuio dandarum et secundae mensae ponendae consuetudinem haud parua luxuriae inritamenta repperisse. ac minime mirum est quod homines labore ac patientia gaudentes tenacissimos patriae neruos externarum deliciarum contagione solui et hebetari noluerunt, cum aliquanto faciliorem uirtutis ad luxuriam quam luxuriae ad uirtutem transitum uiderent. quod eos non frustra timuisse dux ipsorum Pausanias patefecit, qui maximis operibus editis, ut primum se Asiae moribus permisit, fortitudinem suam effeminato eius cultu mollire non erubuit.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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