Nihil etiam Agesilai facto sapientius, si quidem cum adversus rem publicam Lacedaemoniorum conspirationem ortam noctu comperisset, leges Lycurgi continuo abrogavit, quae de indemnatis supplicium sumi vetabant: comprehensis autem et interfectis sontibus, e vestigio restituit atque utrumque simul providit, ne salutaris animadversio vel iniusta esset vel iure impediretur.
Nothing too could be wiser than an action of Agesilaus. Learning one night that a conspiracy was afoot against the Lacedaemonian commonwealth, he immediately abrogated the laws of Lycurgus which forbade the taking of punitive measures against persons not convicted of offence. Then, having arrested and executed the guilty, he promptly restored the laws. Thus he provided for two things at once, that salutary punishment should be neither unlawful nor hindered by law.
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