来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第9集第9集》

hardly any scholar would take that seriously,

而且几乎没有学者认真研究过这事
and then people do argue

不过那时人们确实在争论
about when would the changes have taken place,

历史上的变迁是何时发生的
and if there was a Lycurgus,

以及如果历史上真有利库尔戈斯其人
when he would have introduced these laws.

他是如何提出这些法律的
A skeptic of nineteenth-century historian put it this way,

一个19世纪的怀疑论史学家认为
he said, Lycurgus was not a man he was only a god.

利库尔戈斯不是人而是神
That is to say, he was somebody invented by the Spartans

也就是说他是被斯巴达人创造出来的
as somebody who put together this.

他被幻化成操纵一切的人
I myself--you know me.

我自己...你们知道我
I'm credulous by trade and I believe in the Higher Naiveté.

我经常上当受骗而且总轻信别人
I think there might have been a guy named Lycurgus,

我认为可能确实存在利库尔戈斯这个人