This story comes down to us through Plutarch, in whose " Apothegms of the Laconian Women, " the story appears thus: " Another (Spartan mother) on handing her boy his shield, exhorting him, said, 'My son, either this or upon this'."
这个故事是通过普鲁塔克传给我们的,在他的“拉科尼亚妇女的箴言”中,这个故事是这样出现的:“另一个(斯巴达母亲)把盾牌交给她的男孩,劝告他说,‘我的儿子,要么是这个,要么是在这个'。”