and after, see Paus. VIII. lii. 4; IX. lxiv.

[5] See Plut. "Lycurg." 30 (Clough, i. 124).

[6] This passage would seem to fix the date of the chapter xiv. as
about the time of the Athenian confederacy of 378 B.C.; "Hell." V.
iv. 34; "Rev." v. 6. See also Isocr. "Panegyr." 380 B.C.; Grote,
"H. G." ix. 325. See the text of a treaty between Athens, Chios,
Mytilene, and Byzantium; Kohler, "Herm." v. 10; Rangabe, "Antiq.
Hellen." ii. 40, 373; Naumann, op. cit. 26.



XV

I wish to explain with sufficient detail the nature of the covenant
between king and state as instituted by Lycurgus; for this, I take it,
is the sole type of rule[1] which still preserves the original form in
which it was first established; whereas other constitutions will be
found either to have been already modified or else to be still
undergoing modifications at this moment.

[1] Or, "magistracy"; the word {arkhe} at once signifies rule and
governmental office.

Lycurgus laid it down as law that the king shall offer in behalf of
the state all public sacrifices, as being himself of divine
descent,[2] and whithersoever the state shall despatch her armies the
king shall take the lead. He granted him to receive honorary gifts of
the things offered in sacrifice, and he appointed him choice land in