Show your Milesian wares at home

Explanation

set down for those parading luxury where it is unfit. For Aristagoras the Milesian, coming once to Sparta, was urging them to help the Ionians being warred upon by the Persians; and he addressed the assembly in costly dress and the rest of his Ionian luxury. One of the Ephors said to him: "Save your Milesian wares for home."