“Weep not for me: suffering, as I do, unjustly, I am in a happier case than my murderers.”
To one of his executioners, whom he noticed weeping, as quoted in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1844) by WIlliam Smith, p. 73.
Agis IV , the elder son of Eudamidas II, was the 25th king of the Eurypontid dynasty of Sparta. Posterity has reckoned him an idealistic but impractical monarch. Wikipedia
“Weep not for me: suffering, as I do, unjustly, I am in a happier case than my murderers.”
To one of his executioners, whom he noticed weeping, as quoted in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1844) by WIlliam Smith, p. 73.