[176] Plato, Lus. 208 C. He is referred to as ὅδε, showing that he is present.

[177] Illustr. [Plates I. A] and [I. B]. Perhaps only the walking-stick carried by all Athenians.

[178] Plato, Lus. 223 A.

[179] Plut. Education of Boys.

[180] Xen. Constit. of Lak. ii. 2.

[181] Herod. viii. 75.

[182] Aisch. ag. Timarch. 35. 10.

[183] In the guardian’s accounts given by Lusias, ag. Diogeiton, 32. 28, a paidagogos is paid for till the boy is eighteen; but there was a younger brother, for whom he may have been required, so the elder may have been free earlier. In Plautus (Bacch. 138) we find a paidogogos in attendance till his charge was twenty.

[184] Xen. Constit. of Lak. iii. 1.

[185] Plato, Rep. 406 A.