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Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus
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For the Thebans were secured by a garrison; the Corinthians
and the Argives were safely humbled as a result of the previous wars; the Athenians, because of
their policy of occupying with colonists the lands of those whom they subdued,1 had a bad reputation with the Greeks; the Lacedaemonians,
however, had given their constant attention to securing a large population2 and practice in the use of arms, and so were become an object of terror to all
because of the strength of their following.
1 The sending of κληροῦχοι or settlers from Athens to the territory of her subjects to serve as garrison and owners of the soil was one of the grievances against Athens in the eyes of her subjects during her fifth-century empire.
2 This must refer to the "perioeci," free inhabitants of Laconia, not Spartans, and to the Helots, Spartan serfs, who tilled the land for their masters. The population of true Spartiatae was constantly on the wane owing to the accumulation of land in a few hands and the resulting inability of ever greater numbers of citizens to contribute their share of products from the soil to the general mess or syssitia. Those who failed to make their contributions were degraded, i.e. became "hypomeiones," though they still served as soldiers.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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