Editing Civics (section)

==== Simonides ====
[[Plutarch]] relates a comparison made by [[Simonides]] between Spartan education of citizens and horse husbandry:{{blockquote|Simonides called Sparta "the tamer of men," because by early strictness of education, they, more than any nation, trained the citizens to obedience to the laws, and made them tractable and patient of subjection, as horses that are broken in while colts.<ref>[[Plutarch]]. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/674/674-h/674-h.htm ''Parallel Lives'']. Now the succession belonging to Agis by law, Agesilaus, who in all probability was to be but a private man, was educated according to the usual discipline of the country, hard and severe, and meant to teach young men to obey their superiors.  Whence it was that, men say, Simonides called Sparta "the tamer of men," because by early strictness of education, they, more than any nation, trained the citizens to obedience to the laws, and made them tractable and patient of subjection, as horses that are broken in while colts. The law did not impose this harsh rule on the heirs apparent of the kingdom.  But Agesilaus, whose good fortune it was to be born a younger brother, was consequently bred to all the arts of obedience, and so the better fitted for the government, when it fell to his share; hence it was that he proved the most popular-tempered of the Spartan kings, his early life having added to his natural kingly and commanding qualities the gentle and humane feelings of a citizen.Translated by [[John Dryden]] . Edited by [[Arthur Hugh Clough]]. [[Project Gutenberg]]</ref>}}