Kitap 4
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But Demetrius the Scepsian says, in the first book of his treatise on the Trojan Array, that the festival of the Carnea among the Lacedæmonians is a representation of a military expedition. For that there are nine spots marked out; and they are called sciades,From σκιὰ, shade. having something like tents in them; and in each of them nine men sup; and everything is proclaimed by the crier as if it were a military order. Now each scias has three phratriæ. And this festival of the Carnea lasts nine days.
