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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.

2 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxiv. (54 E). The free population of Sparta did no labour.

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