"Weep not for me: suffering, as I do, unjustly, I am in a happier case than my murderers."
— Agis IV

January 1, 1970

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Executed peopleMonarchs from GreeceEurypontid kings of Sparta
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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.