[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.