[178] For the latter suffered the opposing party to live with them and share in all the privileges of the state, excepting the offices and the honors, whereas the intelligent class among the Spartans held that such men were foolish in thinking that they could live in the same city with those against whom they had committed the greatest wrongs and yet govern the state in security; they themselves did nothing of the sort, but instead set up amongst their own class the only kind of equality and democracy[160] which is possible if men are to be at all times in complete accord, while reducing the mass of the people to the condition of Perioeci,[161] subjecting their spirits to a bondage no less abject than that endured by slaves.