Note 462 — Chapter LXXIII · AGESILAUS KING OF SPARTA. — THE CORINTHIAN WAR.
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Xen. Hellen. iii, 3, 9, 10.
The persons called Hippeis at Sparta, were not mounted; they were a select body of three hundred youthful citizens, employed either on home police or on foreign service.
See Herodot. viii, 124; Strabo, x, p. 481; K. O. Müller, History of the Dorians, B. iii, ch. 12, s. 5, 6.