or Hvan-iratha, ruled by Susi-nag, the original father-god of
the model state identified with the pole-star, Draconis, the serpent
(Hewitt, _op. cit._ p. 253), see also Appendix III, list II.

Four-fold rule embodied in king, p. 325. Darius distributed Persian empire
into 4x5=20 satrapies, each including a certain continuous territory
(Grote).

GREECE.

Tenos divided into seven quarters, seven divisions of state.(139)

Four tribes,(140) four castes, territorial division of Attica into four
parts, institution of tetrarchies. Thessaly anciently divided into four
tetrarchies. Institution (between 600-560 B.C.) of cycle or period, marked
by the four sacred Olympic games, one of which took place in one of four
cities each year in rotation. Pisistratus added the quadrennial or greater
Panathenaea to the ancient annual and lesser Panathenaea (Grote, History of
Greece, vol. 4).

Twelve tribes formed by Cecrops--represented by twelve chiefs,
+Cecrops=thirteen.

It is most interesting to find this division adopted in Plato's de
Legibus, in which it is imagined that three elderly statesmen come
together, belonging respectively to Athens, Crete and Lacedaemon, to
discuss the reestablishment of the depopulated city of Magnesia in Crete.
Aristotle has insinuated that the scheme proposed by Plato was not
original and had been actually realized at Lacedaemon. Mr. George Burger,
the able translator of Bohn's edition of Plato's Works, in his
introduction to vol. V, remarks that, if that were the case, Plato would
never have wasted his time in writing two elaborate treatises on matters
already well known, when it would have been sufficient to point out ...
the institutions of Lycurgus as the pattern, if not of a faultless
government, at least of one, that approached the nearest to perfection.
Plato might have replied to the charge made by Aristotle by saying that
his notions were all the better for not being original, for it was thus
shown that, as some of them were practicable, since they had already been
put into practice--the rest, which were a reform rather of existing
institutions than the construction of a code perfectly novel, would be
equally practicable if they were submitted to the same test. In his
Protagoras, Plato distinctly states that in Crete and Lacedaemon a most
beautiful philosophy was to be found, which had been handed down from
ancient times.... Let us now examine the plan discussed by the three
statesmen and s