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Footnotes

[11]

Republic, iv.

[12]

Politics, viii. 5.

[13]

"Life of Pelopidas."

[14]

Plato, in his seventh book of Laws, says that the prfectures of music and gymnic exercises are the most important employments in the city; and, in his "Republic," iii, Damon will tell you, says he, what sounds are capable of corrupting the mind with base sentiments, or of inspiring the contrary virtues.

[15]

Memorabilia, v.

[16]

Politics, iii. 4.

[17]

Diophantes, says Aristotle, Politics, ii. 7, made a law formerly at Athens, that artisans should be slaves to the republic.

[18]

Plato, likewise, and Aristotle require slaves to till the land, Laws, viii. Politics, vii. 10. True it is that agriculture was not everywhere exercised by slaves: on the contrary, Aristotle observes the best republics were those in which the citizens themselves tilled the land: but this was brought about by the corruption of the ancient governments, which had become democratic: for in earlier times the cities of Greece were subject to an aristocratic government.

[19]

Cauponatio.

[20]

Book v.

[21]

Aristotle, Politics, vii-viii.

[22]

Ibid., viii. 3.

[23]

Aristotle observes that the children of the Lacedæmonians, who began these exercises at a very tender age, contracted thence too great a ferocity and rudeness of behaviour. — Ibid., viii. 4.

[24]

"Life of Pelopidas."