FOOTNOTES:
[77:1] The reader who desires fuller details may consult the chapter on the 'Lyric Age' in my Social Life in Greece, and the chapters on the lyric poets in my History of Greek Literature.
[78:1] Herodotus, vi. 58.
[78:2] The theorists were always framing policies after Spartan ideas.
[78:3] The two accounts of early Sparta which are cited with general approval are those of Duncker in his history, and Busolt's monograph, Die Lakedaimonier (Leipzig, 1878). But there is a host of additional literature, cf. Busolt, G. G. i. 95.
[80:1] It is likely enough that at no time were they really extinct in the Peloponnesus or in the lesser towns of northern Greece.
[80:2] There is a good note upon this word in the Greek argument to the Œdipus Tyrannus.
[82:1] Mitford, who wrote in the days when tirades against tyrants were in high fashion, brought down a torrent of censure upon his head by saying his word for absolute government against democracy.