Polity Athenians And Lacedaemonians

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"Pol. " ii. 9, 25.
(2) Or, "seniory, " or "senate, " or "board of elders"; lit. "the Gerontia. " (3) Or, "the old age of the good. Yet this he did when he made... Since he contrived, " etc.
And yet another point may well excite our admiration for Lycurguslargely. It had not escaped his observation that communities existwhere those who are willing to make virtue their study and delight failsomehow in ability to add to the glory of their fatherland. (4) Thatlesson the legislator laid to heart..., and in Sparta he enforced, as amatter of public duty, the practice of virtue by every citizen. And soit is that, just as man differs from man in some excellence, accordingas he cultivates or neglects to cultivate it, this city of Sparta, withgood reason, outshines all other states in virtue; since she, and shealone, as made the attainment of a high standard of noble living apublic duty.
(4) Is this an autobiographical touch?
And was this not a noble enactment, that whereas other states arecontent to inflict punishment only in cases where a man does wrongagainst his neighbour, Lycurgus imposed penalties no less severe on himwho openly neglected to make himself as good as possible?

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