Capítulo 35
[35.1] Herondas was at Athens when a man there was found guilty on a charge of not having any occupation,On the subject see Busolt, Griechische Staatskunde (Munich, 1926), p. 815. and, when he heard of this, he bade them point out to him the man who had been convicted of the freeman’s crime! Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxiv. (54 E). The free population of Sparta did no labour.