Διειρωνόξενοι
falsely-hospitable, guest-dissembling
Translated by D. Graham J. Shipley18 Jan 2002Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] those totally deceiving foreigners and lying by dissimulation and acting. [Said of] the Laconians; among whom also existed the law about expulsion of foreigners.1 That the Laconians were disgracefully-covetous2 and small-minded is shown by the oracle 'Love of money shall destroy Sparta, but naught else'.3 They were also misanthropes regarding foreigners, and it was not permitted to any individual foreigner to set foot in Sparta all the time, but [only] on specified days.