[1532]. Thucyd. i. 120.
[1533]. Müller, iii. ch. x. § 10.
[1534]. Herod. vi. 70.
[1535]. Id. vi. 69.
[1536]. Plut. Agis, § 13. But this was at a late period, when rich men and usurers had monopolised all the wealth of Sparta.
[1537]. Herod, vi. 86.
[1538]. Müller, l. iii. ch. x. § 11.
[1539]. Plat. Alcib. i. t. v. p. 342, seq. This inferior production, with its admiration of courts and eunuchs, cannot be Plato’s, but contains, nevertheless, several curious facts. On the subject of Spartan wealth, however, it perfectly agrees with Plato’s own opinion in the Hippias, t. v. p. 414. Cf. Bitaubè, Sur la Richesse de Sparte. Nouveaux Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres, de Berlin, xxxvii. 559.
[1540]. Esprit des Loix, xxi. 12.
[1541]. This was thought necessary even by so great a man as Lysander. Plut. Lysand. § 18.