Sthenelaidas
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Spartan ephor whose reported speech is cited via Thucydides.
And, as Thucydides relates, Sthenelaidas, one of the Ephori, maintains that “where we have been injured, not by words, but by actions, the matter cannot be decided by words and forms.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan ephor who speaks forcefully for immediate war and presides over the assembly's vote.
but Sthenelaidas, who was one of the ephors at that time, came forward last, and spoke before the Lacedaemonians as follows.
and neither permit the Athenians to become greater, nor let us betray our allies;
but we have good allies, whom we must not give up to the Athenians, nor decide the question with suits and words, while it is not also in word that we are injured;