Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 39
Evan T. Sage, Ph.D., Ed.

37. "But, you say, those other actions were [2??] at any rate your acts, Achaeans —the [3] abolition of the laws and the most ancient discipline of Lycurgus, and the destruction of the walls. [4] But how can both these criticisms be [5??] made by the same persons, since the walls of Lacedaemon were not built by Lycurgus, [6??] but were constructed a few years ago to overthrow the system of Lycurgus? [7] For the tyrants recently erected them, [8??] a citadel and protection for themselves, not for the city; [9] and if Lycurgus should rise from the dead to-day [10??] he would rejoice in their destruction and would say that now he recognized his home and the ancient Sparta. [11] You yourselves, Lacedaemonians, should not have waited for Philopoemen [12??] and the Achaeans, but should with [13??] your own hands have torn down and destroyed all traces of the tyranny. [14] For they were yours —those [15] disfiguring scars of servitude, if I may so call them, and while, without walls, you had been free [16??] for eight hundred years and for a considerable [17??] period even the first state in Greece, when the [18??] walls were thrown around you like shackles you were bound in slavery for a hundred years.¹