Note 196 — Chapter VIII · SERFS OF SPARTA, CRETE, THESSALY, ETC.
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Critias, in fact, observes, that, as the freemen of Sparta were of all men the most free, so were the serfs of Sparta of all slaves the most slavish. Liban. Declam. xxiv. t. ii. p. 83, seq. Reiske.