Note 597 — Chapter VI · LAWS AND DISCIPLINE OF LYKURGUS AT SPARTA.
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Aristot. ii. 7, 4; Xenoph. Republ. Laced. c. 13. Παυσανíας, πείσας τῶν Ἐφόρων τρεῖς, ἐξάγει φρουρὰν, Xenoph. Hellen. ii. 4, 29; φρουρὰν ἔφῃναν οἱ Ἔφοροι, iii. 2, 23.
A special restriction was put on the functions of the king, as military commander-in-chief, in 417 B. C., after the ill-conducted expedition of Agis, son of Archidamus, against Argos. It was then provided that ten Spartan counsellors should always accompany the king in every expedition (Thucyd. v. 63).