Plutarch, Aussprüche von Spartanern (Moralia 216 A):

Agis II. war ein spartanischer König, der von 427 bis 401 v.u.Z. regierte.

An ambassador who had come from Perinthus to Sparta made a long harangue; and when he had stopped speaking and asked Agis what report he should make to the people of Perinthus, Agis said, “What else except that it was hard for you to stop speaking, and that I said nothing? [τί δ’ ἄλλο, ἔφη, ἢ ὅτι σὺ μὲν μόλις ἐπαύσω λέγων, ἐγὼ δ’ ἐσιώπων;]”

[i][Plutarch: Moralia III. Ed. by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge (Mass.)/London ⁷2004, pp. 290 sq.]