[1522]. Od. δ. 80, sqq. 351, sqq. Cf. Strab. i. 2. p. 62.
[1523]. Which is Bœckh’s fancy. ii. 386.
[1524]. The people of Byzantium are said by some writers to have imitated the Spartans in their numismatic taste, and like them to have used iron money. Πλάτων Πεισάνδρῳ “χαλεπῶς ἂν οἰκησαίμεν ἐν Βυζαντίοις, ὅπου σιδαρέοισι νομίσμασι χρῶνται.” Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 250.
[1525]. Bœckh, ii. 386. Plut. Lysand. § 17. See too the authorities quoted by Bœckh. l. i. § 15.
[1526]. Pollux. vi. 76.
[1527]. Bœckh, ii. 387. Without such a currency, Sparta, says Mr. Müller, would have been unable to send ambassadors to foreign states, or to take foreign mercenaries into pay. ii. 220.
[1528]. See the remarks of Monsieur Bitaubè, in his “Dissertation sur La Richesse de Sparte.” Nouveaux Mémoires de l’Acad. Roy. des Sciences et des Belles Lettres, de Berlin, t. xxxvii. 560.
[1529]. Müller. Dor. iii. 2. 3.
[1530]. Herod. i. 69.
[1531]. Book i. ch. iv. § 7.