Note 652 — Chapter XI · THE STATE (B) STATE AND HISTORY
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
The Spartiates mustered in the best period of the sixth century some 4000 warriors, out of a total population of nearly 300,000, including Periœci and Helots (Ed. Meyer, Gesch. d. Alt., III, § 264). The Roman families must at that time have been of about the same strength relatively to the clientela and the Latins.