Herondas was at Athens when a man there was found guilty on a charge of not
having any occupation, 1 and,
when he heard of this, he bade them point out to him the man who had been
convicted of the freeman's crime ! 2
1 On the subject see Busolt, Griechische Staatskunde (Munich, 1926), p. 815.
2Cf.
Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxiv. (54 E).
The free population of Sparta did no labour.