Footnotes
[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.
[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.
[21]
Aristotle, Politics, vii-viii.
[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."
