34.
Fear having been thus inspired in the Lacedaemonians, it was first ordered
[2??]
that they should destroy their walls; then, that all the foreign auxiliaries
[3??]
who had served under the tyrants for pay should leave Laconian territory;
[4]
next, that the slaves whom the tyrants
[5??]
had freed1 —their number was large —should
[6]
depart before a designated day; if any of them remained the Achaeans were to have the right to seize, carry off and sell them;
[7]
then, that [p. 113]they should annul the
[8??]
laws and customs of Lycurgus2
Livy. Books XXXVIII-XXXIX with an English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1936: published without copyright notice.
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