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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)

Note 198 — Chapter VIII · SERFS OF SPARTA, CRETE, THESSALY, ETC.

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Capperonier, in the last century, entertained something like scepticism on the point, though he could not deny that the moral temperament of the Spartans rendered the existence of the institution probable. “Le défaut de preuves m’empêche, malgré la ferocité connue des Lacédémoniens, de rien décider sur l’usage de la Cryptie.” Mem. &c. p. 284.

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