[309]. Plut. Lycurg. § 5.

[310]. Polyæn. Stratag. ii. 1. 14. with the notes of Casaub. and Maasvic.

[311]. Olymp. vi. 28. Cf. Spanheim, ad Callim. in Dian. 172.

[312]. Cf. Athen. i. 57.

[313]. This, however, is the opinion of Mr. Müller, Dor. ii. 456.

[314]. See the passage in which Xenophon (v. 5. 27), describes the advance of the Thebans upon Sparta.

[315]. Plut. Lycurg. § 6.

[316]. Gœttl. ad Aristot. Pol. Excurs. i. p. 464.

[317]. Pelop. § 17.