Begging him to be careful.

>Now when the Lacedaemonians had made peace with the other Greeks, and united all their strength against the Thebans only, and their king, Cleombrotus, had passed the frontier with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse, and not only subjection, as heretofore, but total dispersion and annihilation threatened, and Boeotia was in a greater fear than ever – Pelopidas, leaving his house, when his wife followed him on his way, and with tears begged him to be careful of his life, made answer, “Private men, my wife, should be advised to look to themselves, generals to save others.” ____________________________ **Source:** Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Pelopidas." *Plutarch's Lives*. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 397. Print. ____________________________ **Further Reading:** [Κλεόμβροτος Α΄ (Cleombrotus I)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleombrotus_I) [Πελοπίδας (Pelopidas)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelopidas)