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[521] The best treatment of this matter known to me is in Bernays’ _Phokion_ pp 78-85. See Diodorus XVIII 18, Plutarch _Phoc_ 28.

[522] According to Plut _Cleomenes_ 18, Sparta was very helpless before that king’s reforms. The Aetolians in a raid carried off 50000 slaves, and an old Spartan declared that this was a relief.

[523] Freeman’s _Federal Government_