In Sparta, he was all for bodily training, simplicity of life, and severity of countenance; in Ionia, for luxurious ease and pleasure; in Thrace for drinking deep; in Thessaly, for riding hard; and when he was thrown with Tissaphernes the satrap, he outdid even Persian magnificence in his pomp and lavishness. It was not that he could so easily pass entirely from one manner of man to another, nor that he actually underwent in every case a change in his real character; but when he saw that his natural manners were likely to be annoying to his associates, he was quick to assume any counterfeit exterior which might in each case be suitable for them. At all events, in Sparta, so far as the outside was concerned, it was possible to say of him, No child of Achilles he, but Achilles himself, The first part of the passage in quotation marks is an adaptation of an iambic trimeter by some unknown poet, which Plutarch uses entire in Plut. Morals 51c . Cf. Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. (2) p. 907. such a man as Lycurgus trained ; but judging by what he actually felt and did, one might have cried with the poet, ’Tis the selfsame woman still! Electra, of Helen, in Eur. Orest. 129 .