Passage 3.8.2
δοκοῦσι δὲ οἱ Σπαρτιᾶταί μοι ποίησιν καὶ ἔπαινον τὸν ἀπʼ αὐτῆς ἥκιστα ἀνθρώπων θαυμάσαι· ὅτι γὰρ μὴ τῇ Κυνίσκᾳ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα ἐποίησεν ὅστις δή, καὶ ἔτι πρότερον Παυσανίᾳ τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ τρίποδι Σιμωνίδης τῷ ἀνατεθέντι ἐς Δελφούς, ἄλλο δέ γε παρὰ ἀνδρὸς ποιητοῦ Λακεδαιμονίων τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν οὐδέν ἐστιν ἐς μνήμην.
The Spartans, it seems to me, hold poetry and the praise derived from it in the least esteem of all men. Except for the epigram composed for Cynisca by someone or other, and an earlier one by Simonides inscribed upon the tripod dedicated at Delphi for Pausanias, there is nothing else composed by a poet to commemorate the kings of the Lacedaemonians.