[1]: As joining with Iphitus in founding, or reviving, the Olympic games, in 776 B.C., the date assigned to the first recorded victory. Cf. Pausanias, v. 4, 5 f.; 20, 1. A stay of hostilities was observed all over Greece during the festival.
[2]: 776-73 B.C.
[3]: Reip. Lac. x. 8. Lycurgus is said to have lived in the times of the Heracleidae.
[4]: Aristodemus, from whose twin sons Eurysthenes and Procles the elder and younger royal lines at Sparta (the Agids and Eurypontids) were descended, was the son of Aristomachus, the son of Cleodaeus, the son of Hyllus, the son of Heracles. See Pausanias, iii. 1-10; Herodotus, vii. 204 andviii. 131.
[5]: A temple of Athena.
[6]: Laws, p. 691 e.
[7]: Probably names of small tributaries of the river Eurotas.
[8]: Laws, p. 692 a.
[9]: About £ 40, or $200.
[10]: Cf. Morals, p. 527 b.
[11]: At Sparta, military commanders under the kings.
[12]: Or caddos, from which the verb in the Greek text is formed.
[13]: Pol. ii. 6, 8.
[14]: Republic, p. 458 d.
[15]: The name is Geradatas in Morals, p. 228 c (Apophtheg. Lacon, 20).
[16]: Cf. Alcibiades, i. 2.
[17]: Alcibiades I. p. 122 b.
[18]: Chapter ix. 1.
[19]: After the manner of men begging their conquerors to spare their lives.
[20]: Chapter xix. 1.
[21]: Fragment 199, Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Gr. i.4 p. 448.
[22]: The Greek of this sentence is obscure, and the translation doubtful.
[23]: Chapter viii. 4.
[24]: Places where men assembled for conversation.
[25]: Chapter v. 7. f.
[26]: In the Funeral Oration of Pericles,ii. 39, 1.
[27]: Laws, p. 630 d.
[28]: iv. 80.
[29]: Under Epaminondas, 369 B.C.
[30]: 464 B.C. Cf. Plutarch’s Cimon, xvi.
[31]: See chapter v. 3.
[32]: Timaeus, p. 37 c.
[33]: Cf. chapter xviii. 4.
[34]: In 371 B.C., when the Thebans under Epaminondas broke the supremacy of Sparta.