When Therykion tried to persuade Cleomenes to despatch himself, by reason of the ill posture of his affairs, and, having missed a death of more honour in the battle he had lost, to accept of this the second in honour to it, and not to give the conquerors leisure to make him undergo either an ignominious death or an infamous life; Cleomenes, with a courage truly Stoic and Lacedaemonian, rejected his counsel as unmanly and mean;
Treizionek Kleomenesi predikatzen diolarik bere burua hil dezan, bere egitekoen egoera txarragatik, eta, galdu berri zuen guduan heriotza ohoragarriagotik itzuririk, onar dezan ohoretan bigarren mailako den beste hau, eta ez eman garaileari heriotza edo bizi ahalkegarri baten jasanarazteko aldirik, Kleomenesek, kuraia lakedemoniar eta estoiko batez, gaitzesten du aholku hori laxo eta andderetua bezala: