[646] Ibid. iv. 67.
[647] Luk. ag. Leok. 76.
[648] C.I.A. IV. ii. 563 b.
[649] In 431 B.C. Athens had 13,000 hoplites of between twenty and forty years of age. On this average there would be perhaps about 1000 epheboi per year, or 2000 altogether—the same number as here. The 16,000 of the reserve in 431 includes veterans and metics as well as epheboi.
[650] The changes seem to have happened shortly before 305, for in an inscription of that year the numbers have dropped greatly and brothers serve together.
[651] C.I.A. ii. 466, 470.
[652] C.I.G. Pelop. 589, 749, 753.
[654] Thuc. vi. 45, vii. 48.