Constitution of the Lacedaemonians

Sections

1.1 – 1.3 1.4 – 1.6 1.7 – 2.1 2.1 – 2.2 2.3 – 2.4 2.5 – 2.6 2.7 – 2.8 2.9 – 2.11 2.12 – 2.14 3.1 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.3 4.4 – 4.7 5.1 – 5.4 5.5 – 5.7 5.8 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.4 6.5 – 7.4 7.5 – 8.2 8.3 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.3 9.4 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.5 10.6 – 11.1 11.2 – 11.3 11.4 – 11.6 11.7 – 11.9 11.10 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.7 12.7 – 13.2 13.3 – 13.6 13.7 – 13.9 13.10 – 14.3 14.4 – 15.2 15.3 – 15.7 15.8 – 15.9

İngilizce Yunanca

2.1 In the other Greek states parents who profess to give their sons the best education place their boys under the care and control of a moral tutorI have adopted for παιδαγωγός the term used at Oxford for a person who has charge of, but does not teach, an undergraduate. as soon as they can understand what is said to them, and send them to a school to learn letters, music and the exercises of the wrestling-ground. Moreover, they soften the children’s feet by giving them sandals, and pamper their bodies with changes of clothing; and it is customary to allow them as much food as they can eat.

2.2 Lycurgus, on the contrary, instead of leaving each father to appoint a slave to act as tutor, gave the duty of controlling the boys to a member of the class from which the highest offices are filled, in fact to the Warden as he is called. He gave this person authority to gather the boys together, to take charge of them and to punish them severely in case of misconduct. He also assigned to him a staff of youths provided with whips to chastise them when necessary; and the result is that modesty and obedience are inseparable companions at Sparta.