Archytas

and, as Plato wrote to Archytas, remembers that he was born not for himself alone, but for his country and for his own, so that a very small part is left for himself.

Why, after that, did he go to Archytas at Tarentum?

that he was much in the company of Archytas of Tarentum and of Timaeus of Locri, and obtained the commentaries of Philolaus;

"So Archytas plainly reckoned anger, dissenting from reason, to be a kind of sedition of the mind, and wished it to be quieted by counsel;

"but I imitate that famous Archytas of Tarentum, who, when he had come to his country house and found everything done otherwise than he had ordered, said to his bailiff, 'Ah, you wretch, I would have flogged you to death by now, were I not angry.

Whence is praised that saying of Archytas, who, when he had become rather angry with his bailiff, said:

With this man's life, then — than which I can devise nothing fouler, more wretched, more detestable — I shall not now compare the life of Plato or of Archytas, learned men and plainly wise:

You will discover also that Archytas of Tarentum became ruler of his city and managed its affairs so admirably and so considerately as to spread the record of that achievement to all mankind;

In the following year—Archytas being now ephor, and Alexias archon at Athens—Lysander arrived at Ephesus and sent for Eteonicus to come thither from Chios with the ships, while he also gathered together all the other ships that were anywhere to be found;

Brasidas, Isanor, Sostratidas, Exarchus, Agesistratus, Angenidas, Onomacles, Zeuxippus, Pityas, Pleistolas, Cleinomachus, Ilarchus, Leon, Chaerilas, Patesiadas, Cleosthenes, Lycarius, Eperatus, Onomantius, Alexippidas, Misgolaidas, Isias, Aracus, Euarchippus, Pantacles, Pityas, Archytas, and Endius;