A little later Tyrtaeus was composing his famous elegies in Sparta.
It was a little lame schoolmaster, Tyrtaeus, who aroused the Spartans by his poetry and led them to victory against the foe.
The martial poet Tyrtaeus, and the oligarch Theognis, furnish him with happy illustrations of the two sorts of courage.
After these, excellent Homer and Tyrtaeus animated the manly mind to martial achievements with their verses.
But he was yet something more: he could, if he pleased, be a Tyrtaeus; he was no fighter—where was there ever a poet that was?
