[636] The force may also have included citizens, for the younger Alkibiades once served in it (Lus. xv. 6). But that was a special occasion, when the ordinary cavalry had refused to receive him.
[637] Thuc. ii. 13. 6-7.
[638] Lus. xvi. 13, xiv. 10.
[639] Thuc. ii. 13. 6-7.
[640] Xen. Mem. iii. 5. 27.
[641] Xen. Revenues, iv. 52.
[642] C.I.A. I. 143. Cp. C.I.A. I. 79 for citizen-archers.
[643] It is noticeable that in Aristotle’s time the epheboi were taught by a “Teacher of Archery.” He may be a survival.
[644] In Boiotia and the Megarid the epheboi served as cavalry, hoplites, or peltasts (C.I.G. Boiot. and Meg. 2715, 2717-21, 1747-48, etc.).
[645] Thuc. i. 105.