[35] Xen. Anab. iv. 6. 14.

[36] Isok. Panath. 277.

[37] κρυπτεία, κρυπτή.

[38] Plato, Laws, 633 C.

[39] Plut. Lukourgos, 28. Isokrates merely mentions that the Ephors could kill as many Helots as they liked (Panath. 271 B).

[40] Plut. Kleom. 28.

[41] Thuc. iv. 80.

[42] Plato, Laws, 763 B. Some have supposed that κρυπτοί is an interpolation. If so, the resemblance must have been close enough to strike a commentator who knew Lakedaimon, in spite of the fact that the ages in the two systems are different.

[43] Polukrates (in Athen. 139 e).

[44] Aristot. Pol. viii. 4; Plut. Luk. 19.