on active service, the Lacedaemonians are well supplied with all the
conveniences enjoyed by people living as citizens at home.[2] All
implements and instruments whatsoever, which an army may need in
common, are ordered to be in readiness,[3] some on waggons and others
on baggage animals. In this way anything omitted can hardly escape
detection.

[1] I.e. "in the particular case." See "Hell." VI. iv. 17; Muller,
"Dorians," iii. 12 (vol. ii. 242 foll., Eng. tr.)

[2] Or, "the conveniences of civil life at home."

[3] Reading {parekhein}, or if {paragein}, "to be conveyed." Cf.
Pausan. I. xix. 1. See "Cyrop." VI. ii. 34.

For the actual encounter under arms, the following inventions are
attributed to him. The soldier has a crimson-coloured uniform and a
heavy shield of bronze; his theory being that such an equipment has no
sort of feminine association, and is altogether most warrior-like.[4]
It is most quickly burnished; it is least readily soiled.[5]

[4] Cf. Aristoph. "Acharn." 320, and the note of the scholiast.

[5] See Ps. Plut. "Moral." 238 F.

He futher permitted those who were above the age of early manhood to
wear their hair long.[6] For so, he conceived, they would appear of
larger stature, more free and indomitable, and of a more terrible
aspect.