Λυκοῦργος

Sections

1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 1.4 2.1 – 2.2 2.3 – 3.2 3.3 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.4 4.5 – 5.2 5.3 – 5.4 5.5 – 5.6 5.7 – 5.8 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.3 6.4 – 7.1 7.2 – 7.3 8.1 – 8.3 8.4 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.3 9.4 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.3 11.1 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.4 12.1 – 12.3 12.4 – 12.5 12.6 – 12.7 13.1 – 13.3 13.4 – 13.6 14.1 – 14.2 14.3 – 14.4 15.1 – 15.2 15.3 – 15.4 15.5 – 15.7 15.8 – 15.9 15.10 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.3 16.4 – 16.5 16.6 – 17.1 17.2 – 17.3 17.4 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.3 18.4 – 19.1 19.2 – 19.4 20.1 – 20.3 20.4 – 20.6 21.1 – 21.3 21.4 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.4 22.5 – 23.1 23.2 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.4 25.1 – 25.3 25.4 – 25.5 26.1 – 26.2 26.3 – 26.4 27.1 – 27.2 27.3 – 28.1 28.2 – 28.3 28.4 – 28.5 28.6 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 29.5 29.6 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.3 30.4 – 30.5 30.6 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.3 31.4 – 31.5

İngilizce Yunanca

28.2 This secret service was of the following nature. The magistrates from time to time sent out into the country at large the most discreet of the young warriors, equipped only with daggers and such supplies as were necessary. In the day time they scattered into obscure and out of the way places, where they hid themselves and lay quiet; but in the night they came down into the highways and killed every Helot whom they caught.

28.3 Oftentimes, too, they actually traversed the fields where Helots were working and slew the sturdiest and best of them. So, too, Thucydides, in his history of the Peloponnesian war, iv. 80. tells us that the Helots who had been judged by the Spartans to be superior in bravery, set wreaths upon their heads in token of their emancipation, and visited the temples of the gods in procession, but a little while afterwards all disappeared, more than two thousand of them, in such a way that no man was able to say, either then or afterwards, how they came by their deaths.