see what is
said of Dercylidas, "Hell." IV. iii. 2. The harmosts were not
removed till just before Leuctra (371 B.C.), "Hell." VI. iv. 1,
and after, see Paus. VIII. lii. 4; IX. lxiv.

(5) See Plut. "Lycurg." 30 (Clough, i. 124).

(6) This passage would seem to fix the date of the chapter xiv. as
about the time of the Athenian confederacy of 378 B.C.; "Hell." V.
iv. 34; "Rev." v. 6. See also Isocr. "Panegyr." 380 B.C.; Grote,
"H. G." ix. 325. See the text of a treaty between Athens, Chios,
Mytilene, and Byzantium; Kohler, "Herm." v. 10; Rangabe, "Antiq.
Hellen." ii. 40, 373; Naumann, op. cit. 26.

XV

I wish to explain with sufficient detail the nature of the covenant
between king and state as instituted by Lycurgus; for this, I take it,
is the sole type of rule (1) which still preserves the original form
in which it was first established; whereas other constitutions will
be found either to have been already modified or else to be still
undergoing modifications at this moment.

(1) Or, "magistracy"; the word {arkhe} at once signifies rule and
governmental office.

Lycurgus laid it down as law that the king shall offer in behalf of the
state all public sacrifices, as being himself of divine descent, (2) and
whithersoever the state shall despatch her armies the king shall take
the lead. He granted him to receive honorary gifts of the things offered
in sacrifice, and he appointed him choice land in many of the provincial
cities, enough to satisfy moderate needs without excess of wealth. And
in order that the kings also might camp and mess in public he appointed
them public quarters; and he honoured them with a double portion (3)
each at the evening meal, not in order that they might actually eat
twice as much as others, but that the king might have wherewithal to
honour whomsoever he desired. He also granted as a gift to each of the
two kings to choose two mess-fellows, which same are called Puthioi. He
also granted them to receive out of every litter of swine one pig, so
that the king might never be at a loss for victims if in aught he wished
to consult the gods.

(2) I.e. a Heracleid, in whichever line descended, and, through
Heracles, from Zeus himself. The kings are therefore "heroes,"
i.e. demigods. See below; and for their privileges, see Herod. vi.
56, 57.

(3) See "Ages." v. 1.

Close by the palace a lake affords an unrestricted supply of water; a