Note 735 — Chapter VII · FIRST AND SECOND MESSENIAN WARS.
Reading edition
Tyrtæus, Fragm. 5, 6 (Schneidewin).
C. F. Hermann conceives the treatment of the Messenians after the first war, as mild, in comparison with what it became after the second (Lehrbuch der Griech. Staatsalterthümer, sect. 31), a supposition which the emphatic words of Tyrtæus render inadmissible.