Note 236 — Chapter VIII · SERFS OF SPARTA, CRETE, THESSALY, ETC.
Reading edition
Cf. Xenoph. Cyrop. i. 2. 15, where the regulations of the Persian system are evidently mere copies of those which prevailed, at least in earlier ages, at Sparta. Plut. Institut. Lac. § 21, seq. Müller, Dor. ii. 314, seq.