NOTES, BOOK IZ. io. 89
,& 860 rpdrrovs 83s oi Xoyrhraroc riv dpxaiou uylypa+&w 'E+opos,
re+u, I<ahXtoB;qs, Uld~ov, T~&OV piv dpoiau rtai @am mi rjv
7n^ .iaxcGarpoviov, Gcirtpopov I ilrarvrrjv imdpxovuav lirro+aivovurv. tv
oi61repov dh$ds &ai poi bouci. He contrasts the two states in several
particulars; I) the equal distribution of land in Sparta did not
exist in Crete; 2) the greed of wealth which existed in Crete
1s said, strangely enough, to have been unknown at Sparta; 3) the
hereditary monarchy of Sparta is contrasted with the life tenure
of the ylpovrcs; 4) the harmony which prevailed at Sparta is con-
trasted with the rebellions and civil wars of Crete.rb 61 nXriov +TOY yXa+upGs. 10. I.
Compare what is said of Charondas in c. 12, $ XI, rf, dwpiflciq raiv
vdp~~ ;UT; yXa+vphrrpos Kai 73~ VGV vopo6'cruiv.
.kcording to this view the Spartan institutions are not Dorian 10. 2.
hut Pre-Dorian, having been established originally by Minos ;
received from him by the Lacedaemonian colony of Lyctus in
Crete, and borrowed from the Lyctians by Lycurgus.Srb ai v;v oi arpiorxor rbv airbv rpdrrou XpGvrar airois, i)~ Karamrud- 10. 3.
The connexion is as follows :-The Lacedaemonian Laws are
borrowed from the Cretan. Among the Lyctians, a colony of the
Lacedaemonians who settled in Crete and whom Lycurgus is said
to have visited, these laws were already in existence, and he adopted.
them. And even at this day, the laws of Minos are sHtl in force
among the subject population or aborigines of Crete. brd is
unemphatic ; the logical form outruns the meaning.
Either the laws of Minos had ceased to be enforced among the
freemen of Crete or the freemen of Crete had themselves changed
(Bernays); and therefore any vestiges of the original law were
only to be found among the ancient population. Thus com-
munistic usages may be observed among the peasants of India and
Russia, which have disappeared in the higher classes. Yet Aristotle
also Speaks of the commoii meals in Crete as still continuing. -
Does he refer only to the survival of them among the Perioeci?
By Dosiades (B.c. ?) the Cretan Syssitia are described as still exist-
uavros hfivo r;phrov rrjv 7d5w rtiv vbpov.