Brasidas—

• “Make no show of cowardice then on your part, seeing the greatness of the issues at stake, and I will show that what I preach to others I can practice myself” (Strassler 307/5.9.10).
• “Not a bad speaker either, for a Spartan” (Thucydides 4.84)
• “He did the Lacedaemonians very great service” (Thucydides 4.81)