There are many other matters, too, belonging to the present and not forgotten through lapse of time, regarding which the other HellenesHerodotus is doubtless one of the Hellenes here criticized; cf. 6.57, referring to the two votes; 9.53, where he seems to have applied a term belonging to a deme (cf. 3.40) to a division of the army. as well hold mistaken opinions, for example, that at Lacedaemon the kings cast not one but two votes each, and that the Lacedaemonians have the " Pitana company" in their army, which never at any time existed. So averse to taking pains are most men in the search for the truth, and so prone are they to turn to what lies ready at hand.