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Footnotes
[14]
They always united immediately against foreign enemies, which was called Syncretism. — Plutarch "Mor.," p. 88.
[16]
Plutarch's "Morals," treatise "Whether a Man Advanced in Years Ought to Meddle with Public Affairs."
[18]
The Gymnic art was divided into two parts, dancing and wrestling. In Crete they had the armed dances of the Curetes; at Sparta they had those of Castor and Pollux; at Athens the armed dances of Pallas, which were extremely proper for those that were not yet of age for military service. "Wrestling is the image of war," said Plato "Laws," vii. He commends antiquity for having established only two dances, the pacific and the Pyrrhic. See how the latter dance was applied to the military art, Plato, ibid.
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