Passage 6.4.9
Σωδάμας δὲ ἐξ Ἀσσοῦ τῆς ἐν τῇ Τρῳάδι, κειμένης δὲ ὑπὸ τῇ Ἴδῃ, πρῶτος Αἰολέων τῶν ταύτῃ στάδιον Ὀλυμπίασιν ἐνίκησεν ἐν παισίν. παρὰ δὲ Σωδάμαν Ἀρχίδαμος ἕστηκεν ὁ Ἀγησιλάου, Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεύς. πρὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀρχιδάμου τούτου βασιλέως εἰκόνα οὐδενὸς ἔν γε τῇ ὑπερορίᾳ Λακεδαιμονίους ἀναθέντας εὕρισκον· Ἀρχιδάμου δὲ ἄλλων τε καὶ τῆς τελευτῆς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἕνεκα ἀνδριάντα ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἀπέστειλαν, ὅτι ἐν βαρβάρῳ τε ἐπέλαβεν αὐτὸν τὸ χρεὼν καὶ βασιλέων μόνος τῶν ἐν Σπάρτῃ δῆλός ἐστιν ἁμαρτὼν τάφου.
Sodamas, of Assos in the Troad, situated beneath Ida, was the first of the Aeolians from that region to have gained an Olympic victory in the foot-race for boys. Beside Sodamas stands Archidamus, the son of Agesilaus, king of the Lacedaemonians. Prior to this King Archidamus, I cannot find that the Lacedaemonians ever dedicated an image at Olympia of any ruler who died in a foreign land. But they sent this statue of Archidamus, it seems to me, chiefly because of the exceptional circumstances of his death: fate overtook him in a foreign country, and he alone, of all the Spartan kings, is known to have been denied proper burial.