[451] Diodor. xi, 26.
[452] Schol. ad Pindar. Pyth. ii, 3; Plutarch, De Serâ Numinis Vindictâ, p. 552, c. 6.
[453] Diodor. xx, 14.
[454] Pindar, Nem. ix, 67 (= 28 B.) with the Scholia.
[455] Simonidês, Epigr. 141, ed. Bergk.
[456] Herodot. vii, 163-165: compare Diodor. xi, 26; Ephorus, Fragm. 111, ed. Didot.
[457] Diodor. xi, 25. αἱ δὲ πόλεις εἰς πέδας κατέστησαν τοὺς διαιρεθέντας αἰχμαλώτους, καὶ τὰ δημόσια τῶν ἔργων διὰ τούτων ἐπεσκεύαζον.
For analogous instances of captives taken in war being employed in public works by the captors, and laboring in chains, see the cases of Tegea and Samos in Herodot. i, 66; iii, 39.
[458] Diodor. xi, 25. Respecting slaves belonging to the public, and let out for hire to individual employers, compare the large financial project conceived by Xenophon, De Vectigalibus, capp. 3 and 4.
[459] Diodor. xi, 38, 67; Plutarch, Timoleon, c. 29; Aristotle, Γελώων Πολιτεία; Fragm. p. 106, ed. Neumann.