Note 624 — Chapter VI · LAWS AND DISCIPLINE OF LYKURGUS AT SPARTA.
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One or two Periœkic officers appear in military command towards the end of the Peloponnesian war (Thucyd. viii. 6, 22), but these seem rare exceptions, even as to foreign service by sea or land, while a Periœkus, as magistrate at Sparta, was unheard of.