and the Lacedaemonians than among the other Greeks?

Certainly.

Suppose now that they were to become general among the rest also,—should we say that the method of procedure then would be better than it is now?

The improvement would be immense, if things were done as they are in my country and in that of our friends here, and as, moreover, you yourself said just now they ought to be done.

Come now, let us come to an understanding on this matter. In all