Again, among all the pleasures that prove too
 strong for many men, who can mention one to which Agesilaus yielded?
 Drunkenness, he thought, should be avoided like madness, overeating like
 idleness. μανίας and ἀργίας 
 are adopted from the text of Athenaeus, who refers to this passage (p.
 613 c). The MSS. of the Agesilaus have λαιμαργίας , gluttony, and ἁμαρτίας , error. Moreover, he received a
 double ration at the public meals, but instead of consuming both portions
 himself, he distributed both and left neither for himself, holding that the
 purpose of this double allowance to the king was not to provide him with a
 heavy meal, but to give him the opportunity of honouring whomsoever he
 would. As for sleep, Xen. Const. Lac. 15.4 ; Xen. Cyrop. 8.2.4 it was not
 his master, but the servant of his activities; and unless he occupied
 the humblest bed among his comrades, he could not conceal his shame: for
 he thought that a ruler’s superiority over ordinary men should be shown
 not by weakness but by endurance.