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political communities of that great peninsula, survives in fragments to this
day as mute testimony to the magnificence of Sparta’s achievement.^62 If Chilon
really was the architect of Lacedaemon’s hegemony within the Peloponnesus,
as we have reason to suppose, and if Mēdèn ágan was the advice he gave his
countrymen, he fully deserved to be considered one of the Seven Sages of
Greece.