[265] Lycurgus, XXXVII.
[266] Ibid., XXVI.
[267] Donaldson, Woman, pp. 28-29.
[268] Plutarch, Apophthegms of the Lacedemonians.—Demandes Romaines, LXV.
[269] Lycurgus, Polybius, XII. 6. Xenophon, Rep. Laced. I. Aristotle, Pol. II. 9. Aristotle notes especially the sexual liberty allowed to women.
[270] Donaldson, op. cit., p. 28.
[271] Polit. II. 9.
[272] Plutarch, Life of Agis; Donaldson, Woman, pp. 34, 35.
[273] Hobhouse, Morals in Evolution, Vol. I. p. 208.
[274] Thus Demosthenes bequeathed his two daughters, aged seven and five years, and also their mother, to his nephews, classing them with his property in the significant phrase "all these things" (Letourneau, op. cit., p. 196).